A Glossary of Useful Terms from the COVID-19 Pandemic, Upstate New York
Auto Refill: I hit “Buy It Now” over and over on Amazon. Big blue tubs of lightly salted cashews hit the front porch softly, pouched in plastic. I do it so often they intuit when I need more. They send more. I place them on my husband’s tongue like exquisite medication. He closes his eyes. I feed him more. They don’t crunch so much as they soften and slide. Little beige rafts floating him downstream to calmer waters. S’more s: Bonfires become the new currency of our teenaged children. Girls in high ponytails and newly popular “Mom” shorts, boys in wildly overgrown hair and flip ...