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One Year On
Just real quick: We didn't take a hiatus, we didn't abandon the plan or even the website. We tried a thing. We took a lap around the...
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Mar 12, 20236 min read
Packing for survival.
We've still been binge watching and cooking and reading, but we can't really call these quarantine kits anymore. Quarantining is over; we...
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Jul 9, 20226 min read
Quarantine Kit, Early Voting 2022 Style
For real. What even is this election season? If it feels like the fate of the republic hangs in the balance that's because it does. If it...
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Jan 29, 20225 min read
Omicron and outrage. Your first quarantine kit for 2022.
Hey, so, yeah. It feels a little like 2022 is punching down. We're already beaten and bloodied and it comes out swinging? No, thank you....
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Dec 12, 20214 min read
It's Sunday & we read some stuff. Let's call it a quarantine kit for short dark days.
We're coming up on the best day of the year: The day *after* the winter solstice when all days start getting longer. We'll be celebrating...
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Dec 5, 20216 min read
Repeal Day QK
We'll admit it: We were unfamiliar with Repeal Day. Here's the upshot: Turns out, our collective historical memory lays blame for...
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Nov 26, 20216 min read
Black Friday Quarantine Kit
Last year we admonished, well, everyone, to stay home. We wrote, "Whatever it is you think you *have* to do this Thanksgiving, you do...
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Nov 16, 20214 min read
So much for weekly...
"The road to hell is paved with good intentions." Feels like that's the official motto of the world in COVID. And writ large. And on...
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May 9, 20215 min read
Mothers' Day! A quarantine kit on childcare, remote work, and cake (always cake)
Question: How is it possible that there is a debate about whether or not childcare is infrastructure? We're sort of stumped that this is...
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May 1, 20216 min read
May Day quarantine kit
Did you know that May Day started as a Celtic festival called Beltane? Here's a deeper look at exactly why: Which is how it came to be...
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Apr 25, 20214 min read
Simone, Reese, waiting & cake. A quarantine kit for the end of April.
It is coming on the end of April. It is coming on the end of quarantine. It is coming on the beginning of something else entirely. Maybe?...
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Apr 18, 20215 min read
Maybe we'll make them weekly. Maybe?
We got some nice feedback about the last quarantine kit. Reader, we appreciate it *very much* when you weigh in. Also, we got some...
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Apr 11, 20216 min read
QK.
Maybe the last quarantine kit? Because, here's hoping you have been vaxxed. Had your shots, stayed cloistered for the requisite two weeks...
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Jan 24, 20215 min read
On the Cusp of Something Else Entirely: resources for the restless and the hopeful
2020, believe it or not, was for optimism (in the face of uncertainty). For possibility (because no one knew what might happen). For...
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Dec 26, 20206 min read
Boxing Day QK
Now's the time that the light is coming back (or, so they say, it is pretty graybird and snow-globe-y outside right now so it feels like...
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Dec 14, 20203 min read
Electoral College quarantine kit
Electors are meeting and voting for the next President of the United States as we speak. Do you have questions? Are they things like: Why...
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Dec 9, 20204 min read
How's everyone doing out there? A check-in quarantine kit.
First things first, how's your health? And how's your mental health? You hanging in? Or hanging on? In the best of times, Wyoming is thin...
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Nov 26, 20203 min read
Thanksgiving Weekend Quarantine Kit
First, you're at home, right?? You're not in an airport or recently arriving from an airport or welcoming people who came from an...
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Nov 15, 20204 min read
Post-Election Quarantine Kit
Offered without commentary. Essays/Poems "Other countries have social safety nets. The U.S. has women." by Anne Helen Petersen How Racial...
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Nov 3, 20204 min read
Election Day Quarantine Kit
Raise your hand if you slept through the night! Yeah, we didn't think so. 2020 has been a miracle of time: Both lightning fast and...
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