Tag: walking

  • Observations in the Time of Coronavirus: 5 p.m.

    Observations in the Time of Coronavirus: 5 p.m.

    At 5:20 p.m., my speakers come to life with music. A streaming radio station from Minneapolis, my hometown. It’s an alarm I set three or four years ago, timed for a brief segment of banter between the empathetic DJ and a charming curmudgeon of a newsman I’d known from Twitter. The newsman has since retired,…