COVID-19 over the holidays gave me the opportunity to devour
Demon Copperhead by Barbara Kingsolver. I’m fascinated by the opioid epidemic in general, and while this book is much deeper than that, I appreciated the complicated narrative around this drug. Throw in the underestimated impact of institutional poverty captured by a phenomenal writer and well I literally could not put the book down.
Speaking of Day Ones, a girlfriend of mine convinced me to run the
Madeline Island Half-Marathon this May. A new treadmill helps. I’m only a week into training but when the snow hit last Winter I scoured YouTube for some fun, short work-outs that’d keep me hitting my weekly fitness goals.
Grow with Jo is a YouTube channel packed with quick, fun, and challenging work-outs. I also joined Lake Superior Writers and will be
attending Carol Dunbar's presentation in January and taking Brian Malloy's editing class - both of which I'm super excited about!