Holiday Letter 2020
LaneDecember 30, 2020
I used to do an annual holiday letter. I started this tradition in the 1990s and continued until about 5 years ago. I tried to avoid making ...
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Pueblo Mágico
LaneDecember 03, 2020
Mexico has 132 magical towns. As of this past Tuesday, Ajijic is one of them. According to the Mexican government website (tran...
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Thanksgiving 2020
LaneNovember 26, 2020
When my family gathers for our annual Thanksgiving dinner each year in New Jersey, we typically go around the table and say what we're t...
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Why it's different
LaneNovember 13, 2020
People like me are celebrating the defeat of Donald Trump. I teared up repeatedly during the day last Saturday, when Biden's victory was...
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Pandemic Diary XV
LaneOctober 15, 2020
One of the challenges with journaling during a time when not much is going on within my personal sphere is that there's just not much to...
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Pandemic Diary XIV
LaneOctober 01, 2020
Fuck this pandemic! Last Friday I went to dinner at a friend's house. There were five of us: Nicci and Catherine, two friends from bridg...
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Pandemic Diary XIII
LaneSeptember 03, 2020
It's been almost two months since I added to my Pandemic Diary. I suppose I should not be allowed to call this a diary, since the etymol...
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How he steals the election from the people
LaneJuly 30, 2020
I just came across this article from Slate that makes me very nervous. Written in March, it describes a way the current occupant of the Whi...
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My Election
LaneJuly 23, 2020
Four years ago I took a few minutes every day to check electoral-vote.com and reassure myself that the worst was not going to happen in Nov...
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Pandemic Diary XII
LaneJuly 09, 2020
Day 116 There was an announcement yesterday from the governor of Jalisco, Enrique Alfaro RamÃrez. Here is how it was reported in Mexico News...
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Pandemic Diary XI
LaneJune 25, 2020
Today is day 102 of lockdown, or stay-at-home, or quarantine, give or take. I'm counting from the last day I went out to dinner, Sunday,...
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Pandemic Diary X
LaneJune 16, 2020
Lockdown is nicer with a puppy. This is Taco. She has been part of my family for 3 1/2 weeks. She is a little girl, weighing just about ...
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My Fucking White Privilege
LaneJune 01, 2020
Because of my fucking white privilege, I can write about me. If I write about me, I can be accused of being racist. Because what...
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