I am, of course, blogging the pandemic. What else would I be doing?

Below is a collection of my Pandemic Diary posts, from March 17, 2020 onward. I’d say, “Enjoy,” but they’re not really fun. Yet? Maybe eventually, I’ll get funny again? One can hope.

In the meantime: I’m documenting. You’re welcome. 😉 xo

• Pandemic Diary: Paradigm shift: choices, agency, uncertainty(March 17, 2020)
• Pandemic Diary: Navel-gazing in the time of corona (March 19, 2020)
• Pandemic Diary: A love letter to this tiny, messy, imperfect house (March 20, 2020)
• Pandemic Diary: On the gentle art of inconveniencing yourself for the good of the herd… (March 22, 2020)
• Pandemic Diary: What is my mission? What’s yours? (March 25, 2020)
• Pandemic Diary: We’re all interconnected and I wish you’d all screw off and give me some privacy! (March 26, 2020)

• Pandemic Diary, or Suffering for the sake of covidiots; selfish like all the rest of them (March 28, 2020)
• Pandemic Diary: A pissy note to my friends who aren’t working (March 30, 2020)
• Pandemic Diary: From one sanctimonious prick on a self-righteous soapbox to another (April 1, 2020)
• Pandemic Diary: On Day 23, like cabin fever but not (April 5, 2020)
• Pandemic Diary: Easter has been cancelled; apologies (April 10, 2020)
• Pandemic Diary: Even if we don’t exist, let’s pretend that we do (April 16, 2020)

• Pandemic Diary: You can take your silver lining and shove it where the sun don’t shine (April 20, 2020)
• Pandemic Diary: Evil thoughts on Day 40+ of the Cuarentana (April 25, 2020)
• Pandemic Diary: You’re losing time, but don’t worry, I’m on it (April 26, 2020)
• Pandemic Diary: Alberta reopens for petrosexuals’ golfing pleasure (May 3, 2020)
• On this Mother’s Day: Imagine a world in which mothers stopped doing all the things (May 10, 2020)
• Pandemic Diary: Happy Pandemic Birthday to Me… and all 20 million of you… (May 21, 2020)
• Pandemic Diary: If this is the test, I’m failing–you? (May 28, 2020)
• Pandemic Diary: Protests in the time of the Pandemic (June 4, 2020)
• Pandemic Diary: Getting out of bed to protest–also, to make breakfast–during a global pandemic (June 7, 2020)
• Pandemic Diary: Helplessness tastes like sand; eat chocolate instead (June 15, 2020)
• Pandemic Diary: The kids are all right (June 25, 2020)
• Pandemic Diary: Decision fatigue is killing me, and so are empaths (June 28, 2020)
• Pandemic Diary: Celebrating Canada Day with gratitude, and pain (July 1, 2020)

• Pandemic Diary: Creative process in uncreative times—especially when that creativity’s supposed to pay the bills… (July 7, 2020)
• Retreat in the Time of the Pandemic: The Mostly Uncensored–Ok, I Lie, I Totally Censored It, What, You Think I’m Stupid?–Process Journal (July 15, 2020)
• “Tell all the truth but tell it slant”–a break from the Pandemic Diary (July 23, 2020)
• Pandemic Diary: What is normal? (August 6, 2020)
• Books in the Time of Corona: what’s on my shelves and what’s not, and the story it tells (August 13, 2020)
• Melting, working, waiting: an August vignette without a moral (August 18, 2020)
• Pandemic Diary: YYC Pride in Year One of the Pandemic (August 22, 2020)
• Pandemic Diary: Of sentence fragments and their opposite, and also, parenthetically, purposeful procrastination (August 25, 2020)
• That’s my story, and I’m sticking to it… no, wait, actually, let me change it… (August 27, 2020)

• Pandemic Diary: On getting out of bed in the morning (September 23, 2020)
• Pandemic Diary: A meditation on desire (September 25, 2020)
• Pandemic Diary: Adulting without desire looks like this (September 28, 2020)
• Pandemic Diary: Sand in the well (October 4, 2020)
• Pandemic Diary: Instructions to Self (October 6, 2020)
• Pandemic Diary: We’ll find out when we get there (October 7, 2020)
• Pandemic Diary: Three Generations (October 13, 2020)
• Pandemic Diary: Come on, honey. Just have a bubble bath, there’s a good girl (October 15, 2020)
• Pandemic Diary: Pandemic Productivity Peccadillos (October 20, 2020)
• Pandemic Diary: Less enthusiasm, more chocolate (October 25, 2020)
• Pandemic Diary: Suck it, 2020. I mean… let’s be excellent to each other, or at least not Grade-A jerks, ok? (November 15, 2020)
• Pandemic diary: But if the world is ending, I don’t want six pack abs… (November 16, 2020)
• Pandemic Diary: Principles of Propaganda, a FREE primer for the Government of Alberta + Random Acts of Kindness, a FREE primer for the rest of us (November 18, 2020)
• Pandemic Diary: Take me to church, and also gambling, but whatever you do, don’t come over for dinner (November 23 & 26, 2020)

• Pandemic Diary: Pandemic fatigue, also, sniffles (December 1, 2020)
• Pandemic Diary: On plurality, the weirdoes I love, and talking to strangers (December 3, 2020)
• Pandemic Diary: Let me scream, let me scream: Christmas is cancelled, and it’s okay to be really, really mad about it (December 13, 2020)
• Pandemic Diary: Of aliens, erectile dysfunction and pillow forts (December 15, 2020)
• Pandemic Diary: No, the pandemic hasn’t changed you—prove me wrong (December 18, 2020)
• Pandemic Diary: COVID Christmas Canticle (December 29, 2020)
• Break from the Pandemic Diary: Detox this (on Bridgerton and toxic relationships) (December 31, 2020)

OMFG IT’S 2021
AND I’M STILL DOING THE PANDEMIC DIARY

• Pandemic Diary, Continued: But, maybe, a reset? (January 2, 2021)
• Pandemic Diary: I had a dream that I went to Hawaii for Christmas vacation… wait, that wasn’t me and it wasn’t a dream… (January 4, 2021)
• Pandemic Diary: Feeling all the feelings, naming and owning their shame (January 12, 2021)
• Pandemic Diary: Time, time, time, what has become of thee? (January 15, 2021)
• Pandemic Diary: Doing nothing, with relish (January 17, 2021)
• Pandemic Diary: Project managing in crisis (January 19, 2021)
• Pandemic Diary: You’re forgiven; now move on (and maybe forgive me, too) (January 23, 2021)
• Pandemic Diary: Of sleep and guilt (January 28, 2021)

• Pandemic Diary: A gathering (January 31, 2021)
• Writing Practice Looks Like This (February 3, 2021)
• Pandemic Diary: “All sanity depends on this” (February 11, 2021)
• Pandemic Diary: Don’t you hate it when the Buddhists are right? (February 16, 2021)
• Pandemic Diary: Creating when empty looks like this (February 25, 2021)
• Pandemic Diary: Set the Bar Low (March 7, 2021)
• International Women’s Day: I’d rather raise a bitch than a nice girl. Here’s why. (March 8, 2021)
• Pandemic Diary: Some very bad advice about anger (March 20, 2021)
• Pandemic Diary: Maybe it’s time to gaze outward for a bit… (March 23, 2021)
• Pandemic Diary: On living life, versus “filling up time” (March 27, 2021)