Weekly Update, 1/14/21: In 2020, we all did as Voltaire advised

I cut and sawed and sanded more wood in a few months than I have in a lifetime

Allegory of the 1755 Lisbon Earthquake, by João Glama Strobërle

Hi everyone -

The past ten months or so have been kind of a haze. They have the quality of an ephemeral dream for me (did that just happen, or was it my sub-conscious dreaming up something to warn me).

Perhaps I drenched 2020 in too much wine and whiskey. Or maybe it was just the anxiety of …