Snowbound
Maude has a hard time getting motivated to exercise and count calories. Snow doesn’t help. The 2020 Twenty: Entry Three.
Back on the Horse
After 2020 broke a winning streak, Maude tries to kick weight management back into gear, and meets a couple old friends. The 2020 Twenty: Entry Two.
Big Girls Don’t
For many, maybe most Americans, ten months of unusually high stress have resulted in weight gain. Maude’s personal struggle has crossed a line, and she’s not having it. The 2020 Twenty: Entry One.
Maslow Looks Us Over
If America were an individual person, would she find that all of her needs are met?
I Love You Already
Come in. Take off your coat. Warm your feet. Have a cup of tea, and stay a while. We’re so glad you’re here.
Exhibit Q
America reckons with the most powerful conspiracy theory it’s ever seen. But it’s all been seen before.
Learning from Reality
It’s the worst the pandemic has ever been, I’m in one of the states with the worst numbers and the most resistance to public health measures, where education isn’t the highest priority even in the best of times, and I just signed up my last remaining virtual learner to return to in-person learning, effective yesterday. And I feel great–and terrified.
Month Ten
Depending on where you live, it’s been about nine months since the coronavirus pandemic first caught up to the United States.
Thinking Greenwood: Back to Business
Most Americans are in agreement: 2020 is nobody’s favorite year. The COVID-19 pandemic has not only sickened 11 million Americans and killed a quarter of a million. Its wreaked financial havoc and ruined livelihoods across the country, as we’ve shut down schools and much of our economy trying to stem deaths and illness.
The work starts here
One question of what comes next for America has been answered. Based on the late progression of close-call vote counts in Pennsylvania, Nevada, Arizona, and Georgia, it was officially projected yesterday that the 46th President of the United States will take office in January.