Catching Up Over Cocoa
Hello, friends and readers. I have returned after nearly a year of not writing. I sit here with a warm cup of cocoa and half a box of macarons, ready to give you some updates. In the past few months, I’ve been hunkering down and social distancing. Until there is a vaccine for COVID-19, I refuse to go to any gatherings or to eat out at restaurants often. Unfortunately, I’ve missed two funerals and I will be missing a wedding. But TRUST that I refuse to fuck around with a disease that has no method of prevention and no method of treatment. So, what have I been doing in the time that I’ve been trapped inside? Let’s start with something big, since it’s something that’s likely to influence my writing voice from here on out. Sometime in April, I finally became an agnostic. After several weeks of resting from the rat race of work, earning a Master’s degree and commuting over 100 miles twice a week, I finally had some time to put my more refined faculties to work. I became dishearten...