"Change. It is inevitable, and often completely out of our control. "

"Let’s spread joy and love in whatever safe ways we can; let’s just do it without spreading this horrible virus."

"Let’s love each other from a distance, letting that distance be a symbol of our compassion and concern for one another..."

“Memo to myself: Do the dumb things I gotta do. (Touch the puppet head.)”

"...as Leonard Cohen said, 'There is a crack in everything. That’s how the light gets in.'”

"It is an unavoidable, deeply personal, transformational experience, and no one else will ever experience it exactly the way you have."

"...who am I to argue? The story seems to know what needs to be said. Apparently, it knows that someone needs to hear it."

"...the course of renovation never did run smooth, to paraphrase a rather famous Brit..."

...we are all just one cartoon piano away from catastrophe.

It is amazing how dramatically our physicality can affect our psychology.

Trust us. We know a little about luxury vs. necessity, having lived for nearly two decades without running water at the cottage.

Whoever or whatever is indeed behind it all, I’d just like to thank you… and say, “I can’t believe I live here”.

For me, I think the summer of 2020 will always be “the summer that wasn’t”.

Once you know how you tend to react to things, you can decide whether you’d like to change those reactions.

"We are all worthy of love and care, so make sure you share a little with yourself."

If I want my writing to be authentic, then I am going to have to allow some of these less-than-sunshiny moments to guide my (virtual) pen.

Cell phones, the internet, apps like Facebook and Zoom: These are all simply tools that facilitate the connection between human beings.

Get ready to gasp: I’ve uninstalled Facebook and Messenger from my phone. I know, I know, it seems drastic...

“You don’t know ‘til you know”, as they say, and sometimes we are blindest to our own struggles.

Perhaps all of this chaos and upheaval could really be the labor pains of a new and more compassionate, fair, and equitable America?