Episode 18: Yoga Breathing in Minnesota, a Taste of Retirement on the Mississippi River, and an Internet Friend/Stranger in Florida — Sushmi, Jim, and Tamára

You and Me and Everyone We Know is an audio diary made by everyday people living through the Covid-19 pandemic, and in today’s episode, we are led through a breathing exercise from a yoga teacher in Minnesota. Plus we hear from the founder of a home-remodeling company getting a taste of retirement during the pandemic. And I talk for the first time to a friend I made online ten years ago. Press play below to listen to the latest episode (or find it on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Google Play Music, and Stitcher): (If you received this through email, tap here to listen.) In the first part of…

i am not a monster and other findings

This week was officially the first week of winter.  I walked down the street, turned a sunny corner and saw the snow on the mountains.  Over the next couple of months it will creep right on down into town.  I’m back to wearing my my mitten/glove/muv things (can someone tell me what the right term for that is?), back to throwing a scarf around my neck, back to warming up next to my slow burning heater with a cup of tea. Our main street is slow-bursting yellow.  It seems over night the boulevard is all fall.  And the last flower…