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• Painting badly (sort of) on purpose 2 years ago Many years ago, I was visiting my family in San Francisco, and my nephew, then small enough to fold up in my lap like a little frog, frustratedly told me he didn’t like a particular video game because he wasn’t any good at it. In my older, frog-holding wisdom, I told him it was ok […]
• Fever Dreams, Painting Badly 2 years ago Laying in bed in a feverish haze, thank you science, my overreactive immune system (and a 3rd Pfizer shot), I snuggled deeper into a pile of blankets and duvets in the warm Chilean summer temperatures that would normally have me using just a sheet or at most, a single blanket. In my freezing mind,...
• 6+ months post breakthrough COVID, and an idling motor 3 years ago And on Day 111, she could smell. No, really smell. Smell that the honey-scented soap that she bought in the hopes of making her nose happy, which heretofore had smelled like lemon and had a certain copperyness to it, which then suddenly smelled like honey. And her laundry smelled like laundry. And...
• Quantifying the unquantifiable, Getting Better after Breakthrough Covid Infection 3 years ago Of all the household tasks, perhaps the most vexing is the putting on of the duvet cover. For those who don’t know, the duvet cover is a giant pillowcase-type-thing that goes on a down (or whatever) quilt. But unlike a pillow, the down duvet has no body to it, no structure, so you’re basically...
• Breakthrough Covid Infection/Infección Irruptiva por Covid, post double vaccination with Sinovac 3 years ago A buzzing, churning, roiling, banging, grinding machine has been just outside my door for fifteen months. Inside the house, I hear it less, but I know it’s there, and even there all I have to do is open my computer or pick up my phone to hear other people’s reports, see the numbers. How much...

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