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So I deaccessioned the first installment of my grandmother’s coin collection today. This installment consisted of a red toolbox filled to the brim with quarters. Forty-eight rolls of quarters (various statehood commemoratives), plus several dozen little Ziploc bags. Three thousand quarters, plus a few Susan B. Anthonys, several Sacagaweas, and four rolls of nickels. That’sContinue reading “Liquidating patriotism”

My neighbor, being a neighborly sort of fellow, decided to DJ this afternoon (a Saturday), not just for his daughter’s 11th birthday, but really for the delectation of the entire neighborhood. He held a dance party. His daughter’s cousins won. I went over to thank him for his neighborliness. It striking me that (a) hostingContinue reading “Week 7 on Corona time”

Week six, so my spouse tells me, is when quarantine really starts to grind. When people realize that they’re not actually going to get a decent haircut, and so just need to break out the YouTube videos and the scissors, or the electric razor. When they start scrabbling at the windows. When all the resolutionsContinue reading “Week #6”

Lost 10 pounds.  Because walking to work and eating salads every day is gonna turn me into a fuckin’ sandwich brigade girl. Found a new favorite dry vermouth.  As a gift from my dearest, longest-term friend. Drank my way through every decent rose there is on the market.  Why are two of these items alcohol-related?Continue reading “What I did on Corona time.”