My pandemic birthday

A young man I’m fond of turned 10 last week. It was a weird birthday by most standards: just back from the States he, his sister and mom were in isolation and mom was sick. She rallied to lay on a favourite meal but there was no party, no noisy gathering of little boys in…

Pandemic hair and a socially distant reality

I need a haircut. I’m a couple weeks away from taking things in my own hands with sewing shears and I figure grey roots will have made an appearance by then too. But a seat in my beloved Drake’s styling chair is a metre too close for us both in a social distancing era. This…