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Pandemic Life: I Guess We're at the Crossword Puzzle Phase

With our previously-scheduled pandemic reemergence on pause, the beautifully dull crossword puzzle has somehow become the most thrilling thing in my life.

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Caitlin Schneider
Aug 26, 2021
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Tony Wilson

I don’t know about you, but until writing this blog, I’d sort of lost track of precisely how long it had been since the pandemic and the “lockdown” “began.” It's not like I’d stopped paying attention or caring, but sometime after the one year mark, when the promise of vaccines gave way to news of the Delta variant, surging cases, and the pers…

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