Rewriting Paradigms

Reopening schools is crucial to a full economic reboot. - Governor Andrew Cuomo We've heard all the arguments for opening the schools. For most of the pandemic, these have centered around distrust of remote learning due to the mishaps this spring, which I hope by now everyone knows has more to do with a systemic failure to integrate e-learning and remote learning into schools years ago rather than any fault on the teachers themselves. The other rationale for return to "the bu

It's the early days of the pandemic, and we still can't get a delivery slot on any of the major online food delivery services. I'm wheeling my large old-lady cart up to Whole Foods one day a week and to Trader Joe's another; some weeks, there's a third store. But each time I make may my way west up from Riverside Drive toward the food mecca of Columbus Avenue, the combined silence of the empty streets, the rattling of the metal cart, and the weight of my intentions makes me s