Highlights from Ps & Q

When I started this blog 80 days ago, I remember thinking I would probably...hold on. EIGHTY days?It's been 80 days. I've been writing this blog for as many days as it took Phileas Phogg and Passepartout to go around the entire world. In many ways, being in quarantine...

Tuesday morning, I woke to the outside sounds of birds chirping, the wind blowing, and Henry saying, "I have to use the potty!"The maiden voyage of the tent went very well, I'm happy to say. I wondered whether it would be the kind of thing where the kids woke up...

Ever since getting the tent, the kids have been begging to have a camp out in the backyard. The first few nights there have been weather issues. In some cases, a 40 percent chance of rain, and other nights, an 80 percent chance of me not feeling like sleeping...

The tent we ordered for summertime camping arrived a few days ago, and I had been promising the kids we'd practice setting it up in the backyard. I might have done this sooner, it would have required a machette to cut through the unruly, unmowed grass to get to it. I...

Being basically on some version of home arrrest for 75 days is bound to have some psychological impacts on anyone. Everyone is probably experiencing some kind of reaction. I've certainly had some increased anxiety, a scattershot music diet that ranges from jazz to...

Sometimes I puzzle over the fact that short weeks often feel longer than regular sized weeks. This being the week on the backend of Memorial Day, it contained a full 20 percent fewer days than a standard work week. Yet, but Thursday I already found myself annoyed to...

With the kids back home, it was back to something more resembling the normal march of quarantine monotony on Wednesday. We did the whole morning breakfast routine, arbitrated all the arguments over which cartoon to watch (primarily an ongoing debate between Clifford...

It was back to work on Tuesday morning, and while we were certainly missing the kids at this point, it was nice to have a few hours of peace to focus on things. Of course, much of the day was taken up with a conference call and a webinar I needed to deliver, but it...

Monday morning arrived and the house was still in an eerie state of peace. The kids were at their grandparents' house for another day, and Erin, Asta and I had our run of the place.We were able to watch actual movies that were filmed with the intention of appealing to...