Kris's Covid Pandemic Blog

We now add war to the list of things we're dealing with in the world. The list that already included global pandemic, climate change, etc. So that's fun. I do keep thinking...it's an awful thing and the pictures coming out of the Ukraine are heart wrenching. But we do seem to share and care more when this happens to white people in Europe than we do when it happens to black or brown people in other parts of the world. Nonetheless, it's awful and a rough week and I can't think of anything I can add to that that would help me mentally or add to the conversation. One of the things I've been working on...basically for two years now is limiting my news intake coming it. I need to be aware, being aware is a good thing, but I need to not oversaturate, particularly when it comes to things over which I have no control. So I've been pretty quiet on the Ukraine issue, which I'm sure irritates some people. We live in a world of performance activism where it seems li

 I've had blog posts open several times over the past couple of weeks open to start writing on and it hasn't happened. I don't really know why. I wouldn't say I've been all that busy or anything, I just keep getting pulled away somehow. This week was Valentine's Day. Never really my favorite holiday but James had a good time and that's what counts. Lots of candy around. Didn't really know how to prepare him, since it's been awhile since we had a Valentine's Day in school but all's well that ends well. Max and I spent a good chunk of that day wandering around Target. Picked up some little Valentine's Day things for the boys and the things that had been lingering a long time on the Target list. Things have been kind of meh around here of late. Feeling behind on everything. I have sympathy and birthday cards, all late, sitting in a pile to address and mail. Motivation has been hard to come by. Max and I both seem just kind of emotional and t