Post Archive by Month

This afternoon, Monty and I were talking about how the quarantine hasn’t affected us that much. We both work from home. We’re introverts who could go for days without seeing people. We miss being with our families and friends, and, like so many others, we had to cancel many plans that we were looking forward to. But other than that, …

T. S. Eliot began his seminal work, “The Waste Land” with this line: “April is the cruelest month.” When I was in college, we spent weeks debating this one line—what does it really mean? Why would April be cruel? Isn’t April actually one of the best months of the year? My opinion has always been that Eliot was exactly right. …