Project-based social distancing

What’s keeping me occupied while I'm stuck in my apartment

Friends(/subscribers),

Allow me to write to you in a rather personal tone today.

People keep saying it is a “strange time” right now. I guess I agree, but why are we using the adjective strange? Instead, I submit that we should be saying it is a stressful, uncertain, scary and often depressing time. Some people are losing their jobs, their retirement savings, their very livelihoods—even their lives.

I am blessed to be doing fine right now. Perhaps I’m even doing well. Indeed it is with great privilege that I can sit in my apartment, well-fed and rested, and write this email to you all presently. (Well, perhaps not “well” fed, unless you count my past 4 dinners of frozen peas and pasta with wine as healthy? Mom, please chime in…)

An introverted (and often solitary) person, in times of stress I usually turn inward in a search for productivity and creation. I want to use this “strange” time of isolation and social distancing to the best (IE: most productive) extent possible.

Thus, the pur…