Dispatch #094
First Person Lonesome: Writing About the Covid-Experience How does one write about the experience of COVID? It’s universal–the virus has covered the world, but it is also particular. Some of us were home, others “front line workers.” Many of had mild cases, others very severe. And almost all of us spent a lot of time…
Dispatch #093
Making Sense of Pandemic Era as a Writer – May 12, 2023 – So yesterday, May 11, was the day that Covid-19 Public Health emergency in the United States ended. I sit keenly aware of the irony of this as I have just woken up at 5:00 in the morning with a feverish three-year-old with…
Dispatch #092
Capital Philosophy by Drew Pisarra I forget when Reality became a genre, ‘though I do recall when Lies were recast as Alt Facts. As for what’s Sane that’s always been up for debate. I tried but failed to find Logic in Wittgenstein. I do better with Nietzsche, Plato, Sartre, Schopenhauer, Marx, Arendt, and Descartes… Yet…
Dispatch #091
The Year I Quit Teaching by ruth crossman I spent the Fall of 2019 working six days a week at two different colleges on opposite ends of San Francisco while frantically applying to, interviewing for, and getting rejected from, full-time positions as an ESL teacher. I thought I was doing everything I was supposed to.…
Dispatch #090
Sixty Percent by Juli Lasselle The ableds are complaining. They’re doing analyses on the effects of Covid-19 lockdown isolation or close quarters with their families: the depression, the strain on relationships, the tedium. They’re writing op-eds and Medium posts about what personal discoveries they’ve made while doing puzzles or making Tik Tok videos or meeting…
Dispatch #089
INCOMING: THE GAME by Michael Brownstein The sun beckons us outside, a spring wind waves its hand, so we go–leaving the fortress into the world of confusion, disharmony, angst, and fear. Our masks neckless our necks, gloves warm our hands to sweat, and we begin our game of avoidance– Incoming, she shouts, to the left,…
Dispatch #088
TIME by Aimee Suzara Thinking and writing about the sacrifices of motherhood and the loss of a writer’s most precious resource: TIME. First, of course, I chose to be a mother, and I knew I would be a single parent, at least temporarily. And YES, I would not trade being my son’s mama for the…
Dispatch #087
INTERVIEW WITH THE VIRUS by D.S. Black Good day C.V. every day I’m still alive’s a good day Good day Crown-Virus Esquire—not to curry favor if such a thing were even possible for a killing machine like you courtesy of a chance coupling bats with pangolin pathogens muto mutare you say mutato I say mu-tot-o…
Dispatch #086
Village Talk by Mj Pramik Posted May 13, 2020 I’d like to slap that smirk right off Paul Hudson’s face! Didn’t his friggin mother teach him some morals?! Sneering Paul thinks he’s a big shit! He’s CEO of Sanofi, the gigamondous drug maker. He says any vaccine jerririgged in HIS manufacturing facility in the United…
Dispatch #085
HOW TO BE HUMAN – Letting Go by Elisa Stancil From the early days of this sea change April 2020 Yesterday a package arrived from China, elastic I sourced from Etsy months ago. Upon opening the package thirty-one individually sealed, single use surgical masks cascaded out, along with many yards of flat elastic. Kindness from…
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