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Sunday Morning Coffee: September 13, 2020

It’s been an intense week as we try to slide back into academic schedules where so little is different from the jolted changes last spring. We’re trying to navigate work schedules, school schedules, and family time, and I’m aware it’s just the second week and things are going to get more stressful (for me, at … Read more

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Sunday Morning Coffee: August 30, 2020

And here we find ourselves in the last weekend of August. David and I packed up the kids at the start of the week to take a quick 3-day trip to Vermont (both celebrating our anniversary and getting a much-needed change of scenery). I’d just been there with my sisters and felt the wide-open spaces … Read more

Sunday Morning Coffee: August 23, 2020

As weird as this summer is, it’s been fun in its own way. But over the last week or so, I’ve also felt a bit of a change for the worse. I think my anxious thoughts are ticking upward anticipating the start of the fall semester, for both me and the kids. After lots of … Read more

Sunday Morning Coffee: August 2, 2020

It’s been a busy week, and yet we’ve barely left home and have been hunkering down during what have been some of the hottest days in Boston’s summer thus far. When we got a bit of a break in the heat, I took advantage of the cooler morning temps to make focaccia dough. Every August … Read more

Sunday Morning Coffee: July 26, 2020

Things are heating up this past week, and we’re looking at a few scorching days ahead. For the past two weeks, I’ve gone out on long walks with a friend from my school program, despite the heat, and it’s felt so good to move my body and sweat a bit. There have been a lot … Read more

Sunday Morning Coffee: July 19, 2020

I spent last weekend at an al fresco picnic along the river. The weather was great, and everyone was (mostly) appropriately socially distanced and masked. We know masks help and are our best shot at getting through the worst of this pandemic and mitigating future death and economic damage. **Wear a mask!** I’ve spent the … Read more

Sunday Morning Coffee: July 5, 2020

Good morning. I hope today finds you well and rested after what felt like a somewhat muted 4th of July weekend. It makes a ton of sense why this year’s holiday felt different: we’ve spent much of the spring and summer reckoning with the flaws of our nation’s present and history, and because of the … Read more

Sunday Morning Coffee: June 28, 2020

Good morning. We’ve made it to the last Sunday in June, and suddenly July 4th is almost upon us. It feels like the holiday approaches with a whimper this year as we continue to reckon with the shortcomings of our national agenda (the pandemic response, systemic racism, a frayed social safety net straining at the … Read more

Sunday Morning Coffee: June 14, 2020

Good morning and happy Sunday. The theme this week appears to be people pushing to go back to normal, and in all the ways that feels so wrong. We’re still very much in the middle of a pandemic and black lives matter. The weeks ahead can be an opportunity to pull forward the elements of … Read more