On day 26 I spent my night playing with my hue lights, setting up different scenes and fiddling with different color schemes. Why? It was the most exciting thing I had to do in the middle of this ongoing quarantine.  After my last conference call, I took out the bike.  I rode down to the Brooklyn Bridge, over and back, and headed back to my…

I awoke to the conflicting news of a new daily death record, but indications that the hospitalization and infection rates looked like they were stalling. Some are claiming we’ve already passed the peak here, I hope that’s true. I don’t really know what that means though. In the beginning of all of this, I intellectually understood some things would never be the same. But I…

The bike. Last year, in an effort to make room in my closet, I’d debated selling it, or even just giving it away. Instead, I bought an outdoor cover and stored in out back. Damn I’m glad I did. It’s great exercise, it allows me to go farther across the city with my camera and from a social distancing perspective, it’s better than walking. It…

Cuomo said in his briefing today that he’s estimating the peak will be in the next seven-day range. Of course, three days ago he said all the models were saying the peak would be at the end of April. Earlier in the week he was talking about the peak being in May.  Studies by CDC show 25% of coronavirus cases are asymptomatic, studies in Iceland…

I skipped day 20, just because. Today was day 21, and after three full weeks of anxiety I’ve come to the conclusion that no one really knows what’s going on. Two weeks ago the CDC was shaming everyone for wearing masks, saying they were not useful in stopping the spread. Today, they gave new guidelines that we SHOULD be wearing masks when outside – but…

Day 19… When there’s nowhere else to look, you start looking within. My takeaway from 2019: when the mirror’s fractured, you see a lot of different pieces of yourself. You cringe, you hurt, you lose, you learn…and you rebuild. Greatest gift any year has given me so far.  I’m not afraid of looking within anymore, I find peace there. (The fact that I can say…