Today felt a lot like Christmas. Except Santa came bearing scissors and hair color. Yes, today I got to see Kristen, at Color Me Krazy. Today I got a haircut. More precisely, I guess, I got my hair de-COVID’ed. The angst began building since shortly after lockdown (um, pun intended, if just realized). I began…
I’m getting fingerprinted today! And photographed! And background-checked! I’m getting a job with the US Census Bureau! I got conditionally hired just as COVID was ramping up in late March, just before isolating become a widely used gerund and a widely enforced official order. Even as I got that initial call, and was answering the…
So if you’ve been sitting around your house feeling distant, disparate, dissociated, detached — helpless about all the hideousness and hate and chaos that seems to be flying around the world today, I just thought of something: Peace. A gesture. Been hanging out with my tribe at the Body Art Barn, which is still off limits,…
Corinne Courtney puts her heart and soul into Nailed It, the hardware store she established in our little town of Washingtonville, N.Y., in 2015. I know this because when I interviewed her for a story when I worked at the Times Herald Record last year, her dedication was palpable. She thinks hard about everything aspect…
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