coronavirus

My heart pounds in my ears. My breath comes fast. I am cycling through the apocalypse, I think as I pedal a few wobbly, independent yards. It’s the second day of quarantine and I am trying to learn how to ride a bicycle – a…

I wish it need not have happened in my time,” said Frodo.“So do I,” said Gandalf, “and so do all who live to see such times.”J.R.R. Tolkien, The Fellowship of the Ring Because, if it had happened earlier I might have been part of the…