San Francisco first asked residents to shelter in place starting on March 17. My daughters and I had already unofficially been doing so for five days prior to that request. When my husband joined us on March 17, I found it comforting to have our whole family together and as safe as possible at home. […]
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Week 6 of My Shelter in Place Travels
We have been sheltering in place in San Francisco for 6-ish weeks now. During this time of staying at home to help slow the spread of coronavirus, I’ve been doing what I call shelter in place travels. Basically, I use my imagination and photo editing apps to travel to different locations without actually leaving my […]
Netflix Called My Husband ‘Papa Farts’ in an Email
Sometimes you don’t even know how badly you need a laugh until you get a good laugh in and end up feeling all refreshed and rejuvenated. That’s what happened to me today when my husband forwarded me an email he got from Netflix that addressed him as Papa Farts. The exact subject line of the […]
Week 5 of My Shelter in Place Travels
Greetings from San Francisco where we have been sheltering in place for over a month now. Schools here are closed for the rest of the school year and my daughters have started their distance learning routines. My husband hasn’t returned to work. I continue to work from home and when I have a bit of […]
Week 4 of My Shelter in Place Travels
My family and I are going on week 4 of sheltering in place and I am beginning to lose all concept of time. I use humor as a coping mechanism, which is why when we were first asked to shelter in place by the mayor of San Francisco, I thought I would start what I […]
Week 3 of My Shelter in Place Travels
Let me start out by saying that wherever you are, I hope that you are safe and healthy. I can report that my family and I are safe and healthy in San Francisco as we continue to shelter in place. It’s been three long weeks since we’ve been staying home as advised by the city […]
Week 2 of My Shelter In Place Travels
Greetings from San Francisco! How are you holding up? A year ago could you have imagined that we’d end up here? In the midst of a pandemic? That traveling could not only be dangerous to your health but also dangerous to the health of everyone else? Things being as they are, the only traveling that […]
Week 1 of My Shelter in Place Travels
On March 17, San Francisco residents were asked to shelter in place to help slow the spread of coronavirus. My daughters were already home from school because SFUSD schools shut down for at least three weeks starting on March 16. I work from home and my husband is not working at the moment because of […]
Managing My Anxiety During the Coronavirus Pandemic
Coronavirus is messing with me big time and not because I have it or anyone that I know has it. It’s messing with me because I have anxiety disorder and as someone with anxiety disorder, I am always and I mean ALWAYS on the lookout for disaster. When I’m parking my car in a shopping […]
Our Love Story Is Simple
Some love stories are complicated and I’m not trying to say that our love story hasn’t had a complication here and there, but when you get right down to how it is that we fell in love, our love story is simple. We fell in love over the course of many walks. We walked and […]