I’m not gonna lie, the lockdown feels a little bit like The Shawshank Redemption. You remember that movie, from the nineties? Tim Robbins, Morgan Freeman; I used to call it The Scrimshaw Redemption. A friend asked me today via chat if I feel like Anne
Your local reporter on the ground in lockdown is back with today’s update from Florence. Of course, even more news happened last night after I posted for a second time. Jason woke me up overnight twice to let me know what was happening, first the
Today merits an additional post as I struggle to understand, in the middle of all this, here in Italy, where we are, and where we might be headed. Everything here is a bit pins and needles. Everyone wants to know if the country-wide red zone
It’s a sunny gorgeous day in late winter. And yet Victor was up by seven this morning, hopping around when I woke up, in tears over homework by nine, which we finally abandoned, incomplete, for an excursion to the park. Eleanor is riding her bike
This is not a drill. News is moving even faster than I thought it would. A lot of news out of Italy in last 24 hours. As you know, the entire country is now designated a zona rossa – a red zone – which means
Day three of the nationwide school closure here. Eleanor (age 5) can do this, and survive it. It is going to be a far more difficult enterprise for Victor (age 8), who is brimming with a crackling energy best expended in regular indoor soccer practices
Another busy news weekend in Italy on the frontlines of Covid-19. At 3:30 Sunday morning, the Italian government enacted an updated decree in further attempts to manage the spread of the virus. The Red Zone, or area subject to the highest level of quarantine, isolation,
It is an extremely quiet day in Florence. Our family is working on equilibrium in the new circumstances of the school closures. We’ve brought the kids up to Jason’s office for a few hours this afternoon so that Victor can spread out on the conference
We’re on Day 2 of the school closures. They’re set to be closed until March 15. Jason and I have been talking about what this means, and how, given the 14-day estimated incubation period for the Covid-19 virus … the math does not quite add
