The Day Things Changed
Today is the day it all started to feel real to me. Obviously, things aren't factually all that different today than yesterday. I knew this was coming. We all did. Or should have. But today is the day that it started to feel real, and these days, it seems that *feeling* real is almost more important than *being* real. So I knew it was coming, this emotional reckoning with reality, and I knew it was coming soon, but I didn't know exactly when. I spent all day yesterday and the day before working on my laptop at a table in the Tiverton public library. I wanted to spend as much time outside the house as possible before that wasn't an option any more. Yesterday, I brought a bottle of hand sanitizer with me and wiped down the table top I was working on. That was my first real concession to the Pandemic. I suppose that's not entirely true. Sam and I had been watching the news before this. We knew what was happening out West. We knew that Boston & New York were both seei...