Nov. 11  Robin made a poppy. A school-wide virtual assembly was organized for children learning at home. Robin and Indre projected it onto the TV screen and watched together with their dad.  ***** On the heels of his defeat at the polls, President Trump, still not accepting his loss, is replacing important military and defense…

Pastel morning. Nov. 10 The unfolding of the presidential election has become a theatrical event to compete with any of Shakespeare’s mad and desperate Kings. Trump is shut in his castle while his noblemen and family take sides, and the country watches in anger or fear, powerless, without horses or swords. If this was a…

nov. 5  A brand new day. Robin had something to tell me about covid. He said “There is this word, ‘contagious’ and it means that something can spread. And covid is contagious.” “Is that why we wear masks?” I asked. “Yes!”, he said. Contagious: who knew? It is weird having to share a kitchen. You…

2020 Halloween Robin and Indre’s pumpkins  A Halloween with a full moon, and it’s blue, and it’s also at its farthest from earth. A rare confluence of moon events.   This year’s Halloween was amazing. A neighbour on our street sent flyers to everyone suggesting a costume parade around the circle in the afternoon. She…

Sign at the playground, before the caution tape was put up. Oct. 28    We are seeing the beginning of the age of the Covid Children. It would make a good novel, set in the Black Death, or now. Or is it the Miri Episode on (the original) Star Trek. “Nyah, nyah, nyah, nyah, nyah.”   …