In looking over my early posts to this new blog, I realize that something very important fell into the gaping hole between September 2020 and July 2022, and I want to amend the record now. In June 2020 I wrote about how, despite being pro-vax in general, the fact that all vaccines come with extra, horrifying risk for me in…
So Jak recovered from his respiratory illness, never had a positive antigen test, and I never caught it (unless somehow the same bug gave us mutually exclusive symptoms, if that even is possible). So it looks like we have most likely managed to continue dodging Covid. Lovely as much of that trip was, it pretty much used up my risk…
Let me start by being perfectly clear: I am very much in favor of vaccination. From the first time I heard about it, I thought the whole anti-vaccination concept was ridiculously unscientific; now, with the additional knowledge that comes from my study of autism, I am even more aggravated and incensed by anti-vaxxer rhetoric. Which is why it’s extremely embarrassing…
David was kind enough to help me break my mental logjam by giving me a writing prompt of sorts, about his experience of discovering happiness during the pandemic through solitude in the woods. I completely understand that, even though it’s not happening to me now. When I was a kid, my parents lived in a house with a big backyard,…