2020 is ending, thank God. December has been a hard month for my extended family. We have endured two emergency hospitalizations, the sudden death of my ex-husband’s longtime partner, my daughter’s terrifying brownstone boiler explosion, and a Christmas celebrated via Zoom rather than as a three-generation tribe of people united sometimes by blood, sometimes by… Continue reading 2020 Has Been Like Living in a Hieronymus Bosch Painting: Bring on the Renaissance, We Could All Use a Rebirth of Kindness!