More Haunted Than Last Time

Newsletter 2020-11-15

My kids did the impossible, or at least the highly improbable: They made it a full week at school without getting kicked out. In any other year, that would have been unremarkable, but this is 2020, when even mundane events like going to a real classroom five days in a row feels like a rare privilege. Actually, the privileged one is me since I can get rid of my kids. Every day after I drop them off at school, I speed away like I reverse stole something. Not that I don’t love my children. I just love them more after a break that lasts through normal business hours.

Even after going back to school, my kids retained the new habits they picked up during their two-week quarantine. Chief among them was playing outside in the dark. The switch to daylight savings time and a streak of unseasonably warm weather last week inspired my kids to run around in our yard well after sunset, which now happens shortly after breakfast. To be fair, it wasn’t completely dark. In keeping with the spirit of the …