Tag: covid
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beyond barry’s
Last week, I returned to Barry’s Bootcamp for the first time since June 2021 (see “dreading the tread”). I am telling myself that I am going to take the classes I paid for pre-Covid and then I am happily going back to my home gym. I am very content with the routine I have created…
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drugstore fantasy
Last Sunday, I waited eagerly in the cosmetics section of a CVS store on Sherman Way and Sepulveda in Van Nuys, CA – only a few miles from where I grew up. I was there because I had been able to secure a COVID vaccination appointment for a first shot of Moderna after checking and…
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ask me about covid
On Tuesday morning, November 10, my husband found out he was positive for COVID-19. But before that, he tested negative on November 5. And before that he played golf with a friend on October 31 who had COVID and didn’t know it yet. By November 12, I just “wrote off” the entire month. I took…
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sourdough days
In August, I was having lunch with a friend and we had not seen each other since before the world was turned upside down by Covid. We talked about the normal updates: Are your kids away at school or online from home? Is your husband working from home? Are you going crazy? Then, she told…
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deep in denial
On Sunday morning February 23, my friend Heidi sent a startling email to a small group of friends. This is what she said: “Ladies, I hate to be an alarmist but I’ve been watching the progression of COVID-19 over the last month. It’s hit an inflection point over the last few days. It’s gonna be…
Do I have chalk on my face? by Denise Geschke 