I’m finally better after having been sick for weeks, the sickest I’ve felt in as long as I can remember. Not covid, not flu (bird or otherwise), but pretty much all the symptoms. Had to be semi-quarantined in our guest bedroom, previously dubbed the Baby Oasis – now Jack’s Den of Sickness. This was the first week I didn’t wake every morning in a pool of my own sweat.

It hasn’t helped that my distractions from sickness have put me underground. After we finished watching the second season of Silo, ...