After weeks of people complaining that the schools were not doing enough to do online learning (I thought they were doing ok) the schools have decided it's time to start. That's all well and good but it means that starting in a few days in addition to working full time…
Due to some bad scheduling, I had three medical appointments today, two of which were telehealth. It's pretty strange to do a teleconference with your doctor, but it works and it feels a lot safer than going in to the office. One of my doctors told me that in her…
It's getting kind-of hard to mark the passage of time these days, (I spent most of last Thursday thinking it was Friday) but today was definitely Monday. Working brings its own comforts, it is helpful to have a routine and it's one of my few social outlets these days. (Who…
It's rainy outside and the kids were fairly restless this morning. We had Zoom check-ins with each of their Hebrew School teachers which was medium-successful though the kids were not super cooperative. Now though everyone is surprisingly calm and quiet. I gave the kids Tayasui Sketches on their iPads, (it's…
Our kids are not sleeping. I am not sure how much it has to do with the lockdown and the abstract fear and worry swirling around our home vs how much is just that they've never been very good sleepers. Either way, they kept us (particularly my wife) up most…
Today was a pretty long day at the end of a pretty long week. We both had a lot of meetings today, and the kids were pretty impatient and restless. My wife was able to take the kids outside for a little while, which was good for everyone. By the…
So what do you do when you can't leave the house and everything from the outside world feels contaminated? Well, you use the internet for everything. Like everyone else, we're working from home, which of course means a lot of virtual meetings on Zoom, Slack, and a variety of other…
The governor just announced that school would not come back until May 4 at the earliest. On the one hand this is a relief because it is obvious to everyone that we won't be back to normal for quite some time and at least MA is going to do right…