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2020-04-12

Plague Journal, Day 30: Pilers and filers

I'm keeping a Covid-19 journal. Here's the latest entry, discussing the difference between pilers and filers and the power of scrubbing.
2020-06-10

Eastern Iowa residents receive magazines with white supremacist stickers

Racist stickers folded into newspapers delivered to residents in Iowa City, North Liberty, Cedar Rapids and Davenport. The message on the stickers ask that "Whites practice racial as well social distancing". The paper
2020-03-20

Plague Journal, Day 7: "Power to the Little Creatures"

Keeping up with the news enrages me, so The Kid and I climb on bikes to ride through Prospect Park; Brooklynites seem withdrawn, more dour. The Kid gets her first online middle-school assignments; The Girlfriend packs up her son's New Jersey dorm room; and as the city empties out, we begin to hear birdsong and sirens.