Our House in the Middle of Our Street

That meme is, as my friend Amy puts it, "Funny. And Not Funny." That about sums up this bizarro-world we've been living in for the past 5 weeks. The economy is shot, people are financially stressed, kids are home and bored out of their minds, and we've all seen a little too much of our family and too little of our friends and community. By now you've probably noticed it: some days feel completely manageable and some feel like Alexander's Terrible, Horrible, No-Good, Very Bad Day mashed up with Groundhog Day.  The unfortunate thing, is that the kids/spouse/roomates have their good days and bad days that don't necessarily coincide with ours.  It's not like the little kids in quarantine can really articulate what they're feeling, either. A lot of us have to still be productive at work, while at home, with the new job of managing the kids' school work along with trying to find them things to do after those 90 minutes are up. Add a...

On our daily morning walk around Ft. Langley; the Fraser River and blue sky Although you maybe can't tell from this bulky list below, but February and March were fairly terrible reading months for me, February in particular. So much so that I didn't bother creating it's own blog post, simply because there'd be almost nothing on it! Thankfully I had quite a few books that I'd been reading for some time (Railroad, and Landline) so that I could just quickly finish them up, and with two books under 130 pages a piece this list looks bigger than it should. I've rounded out this list nicely with 3 memoirs, 3 fiction books, and 1 of poetry. Next month should look quite different as I'm also leading a co-op book club, reading some nonfiction (psychology), and will have finished up three different books with the kids (all different subjects in their homeschooling curriculum) that we're just on the tail-end of now. This pandemic has closed all the librari...