

Day 20: How to Draw a Unicorn
"What are Canadians googling while on coronavirus lockdown?" is the title of an article from today's The Star (Note: for the confused out...


Day 19: Depletion
one two three four I can't today just no. 11:01 pm: Canada cases 12,545 Deaths 188 Recoveries 2321 World cases 1,099,389 World deaths...


Day 18: Amplifier
A side effect of Quammen's book is that I have learned a lot about zoonotic diseases in the last fourteen days. For example, I learned...


Day 17: Handmade
When I first started to learn silversmithing, I realized that working with my hands produced a different effect on me. Different from my...


Day 16: Writing
Tomorrow, is my last class of the semester, a creative writing workshop. I have been reading my student's poetry. There were some...


Day 15: Yeast
There is one strange consequence of this lockdown: I find myself with more time than usual. The first few days, the extra hours I didn't...


Day 14: Advance Directives
It has become clear, in the last few days, that COVID-19 can affect people of any age. Initially, it looked as if the elderly and...


Day 13: Mortality Rate
Today I remembered a conversation I had a couple of months ago. It must have been past mid-January, because I had just returned from...


Day 12: Idiocracy
No meetings today. I managed quite a lot of work. However, I realized that the Chaucer Variorum is locked in an office. The university is...


Day 11: Noctober 47
There is something still in the world while, at the same time, this invisible enemy advances faster and faster, unstoppable. We can only...