Jan 25 #COVIDCatLady, One Year On A year ago, on January 23rd, I landed in Taipei, home for Chinese New Year, to find that the city of Wuhan in China had been "locked down...
Feb 21, 2020 Day 14 of Self Quarantine Spent most of the morning traumatizing one of my cats, trying to feed her her medication. Cats really cannot be forced into doing anythin...
Feb 20, 2020 Day 13 of Self Quarantine Every time I walk out of my apartment complex, there are more posters. Notices and registration forms and pamphlets. This time I walked o...
Feb 19, 2020 Day 12 of Self Quarantine I’m trying to remember what life was like after the earthquake that hit Taiwan in 1999. It was a massive quake and killed over 2,000 peop...
Feb 18, 2020 Day 11 of Self Quarantine Yesterday an old friend half way across the world sent me a headline: Woman refused to evacuate without her cat. He asked, “is this you?!...
Feb 17, 2020 Day 10 of Self Quarantine Self quarantine day 10: 4:00, wallow in self-pity; 4:30, stare into the abyss; 5:00, solve world hunger, tell no one; 5:30, jazzercize...
Feb 16, 2020 Day 9 of Self Quarantine It snowed last night in Shanghai. No, you can’t tell in the photos because it’s mostly just leaves (very nice ones) with a teeny tiny bi...
Feb 15, 2020 Day 8 of Self Quarantine Cats really do make staying at home a lot less boring. Case in point, this morning I dropped my coin box. It took me until age 33.89 to f...
Feb 14, 2020 Valentine's Day/Day 7 of Self Quarantine I don’t usually celebrate Valentine’s Day, but since this year (by default) I am my own date (not my cats. I’m not that level of crazy ca...
Feb 12, 2020 Day 6 of Self Quarantine Saw a squirrel 🐿 My first in Shanghai. I kid you not. If I wasn’t on my scooter with 10 second left at the stop light I would have taken...
