14. Scythe

When the pandemic started I was 38 years old. I turned 39 that first summer, and reveled in the strangeness that we have all experienced at least once now: the pandemic birthday. It wasn’t so bad that first time around. 

But the pandemic is still happening, and this summer I turned 40. And I’m gonna be honest: it kinda pissed me off. 

I was born in the wa…