Author: noemikjames

I don’t hear well these days. I actually got my hearing checked because I struggle so frequently to actually make out what my husband is saying (he swears...

It’s only been a week of this new normal. Only seven days. Mostly it still feels insane, but I think I’m numbing to the glaring absurdity of it. My ...

The kids and I read about this on our New-o-matic app (a great place for kids to read at-their-level (there are three levels) articles about what’s going ...

Yesterday I acknowledged all the things I’m grateful for during this difficult time. Now I’m going to mention the challenges. And there are a lot of...

This situation is horrible, but there are quite a few things I am very thankful for as we begin our likely VERY LONG stretch of quarantine and social distancing...

As of 12:01am this morning, the Bay Area is officially instructed to “shelter in place.” We are only allowed to leave are home to buy food or medici...

When I got the comment asking how the COVID-19 outbreak was affecting life in these parts, there wasn’t much to say. It was Thursday morning and the only ...

Thank you for listening to me wax philosophical about what I want and need. I’m sorry if those posts are super obnoxious. I probably read more about that ...

Space is something everyone in San Francisco is looking for more of. It costs so much here that we don’t generally have much of it to live in (let alone f...

Sorry I was away this week. (And last week?) I couldn’t seem to pull out of a spiral of distraction and was really struggling just to get through the days. By t...