No Flags, No Slogans
Who are they? And why do they never speak for themselves?
Regular people. Normal people. Ordinary people. Average people. Everyday people. (No, not the song whose chorus is likely stuck in your head right now.)
The masses. Salt of the earth. The working class.
Continue reading “Regular People”A personal reckoning with the dialectic between pain and pleasure.
Without looking it up, I know exactly when lockdown got serious: Friday, March 13. The entire day felt off. I remember parking my bus in the evening—the lot was uncharacteristically quiet—and thinking, “Yeah, I won’t be doing this again for a while.”
Later that evening, the county I work for closed down all the schools. The closure would last until the end of the term. My child’s school, in Maryland, would shutter the following Monday.
Continue reading “A Dispatch from Month Four of Quarantine”
