It’s Time to Forget the Coronavirus for a Few Hours a Day — And Find Some Normalcy. Sheltering in Place Day 12

Sheltering at Home Day 12, March 29, 2010

It’s time to get back to work on my next book. This daily sheltering at home  journal has been a great stress releaser for me. But it’s time to forget the coronavirus for a few hours a day and find a bit of normalcy.

Try to anyway.

Pandemic or no, I want to resume the book writing part of my life here at home as Jon and I continue this bizarre routine of self-isolation.

If you’re new to my Sheltering at Home diary, please check out “Day 11: Will Donald Trump Be the Death of Me? Pardon My Rant as I Shelter in Place.”

And don’t miss  “Day 5: We’re Pushing 80. Do We Stay Out of Supermarkets?”

This diary has been wonderful for working off stress, as the coronavirus stats shoot up around the country and creep ever closer to my own city — and to my children’s cities.

Forget the Coronavirus — For the Next Few Paragraphs Anyway

But — these blog posts have left no time at all for work on my next book. It’s working title is “Erma Bombeck and Betty Friedan Meet for Coffee: A Memoir in Essays.” It’s all about what happens when a 1970s feminist drop-out ditches her leather bell bottoms and acquires a straight job on a big city newspaper, a husband, a house, and two kids — who will later grow up to be millennials.

If you’ve been following this blog, you’ve read some of the 100 plus essays I’m planning to put into that book. Maybe you remember reading a post called “Mad Men Exposes the ’60s Girdle. But Will She Get It Off inTime?”

Also, “Scrubbing the Floor With My Daughter Cinderella.”

My first book, as many of you know, is “Wrestling with God: Stories of Doubt and Faith.” It’s a skeptic’s journey through the religions of the world in search of a way to believe in God — or Something — in the 21st century. That book came out of my time as the religion reporter at the Contra Costa Times.

Not to worry. I’ll keep you posted on the goings on at our house on the hill as Jon and I continue to shelter in place and hope for the best. I’ll also let you know how things are going with Erma and Betty.