Arts and crafts and authorship.
![Authors’ uncorrected galley for “Red Team Blues” (2021).](https://cdn.statically.io/img/i0.wp.com/pluralistic.net/wp-content/uploads/2023/09/185ce-0lijbpjm8eff0l8j4.jpg?w=840&ssl=1)
I have screen-burn. Before the pandemic, I spent an unhealthy amount of my time sitting in front of laptop, in ways that were harmful to my posture and eyesight and mental health — but now, nineteen months in a lockdown where my laptop is also how I get groceries, see friends, attend meetings and “travel” to conferences, I am heartily sick of it.
I switch it up. I take walks (though fewer now that I did at the lockdown’s start, alas), I make short trips to shops (masked and anxious), I’ve even been to a small, out-of-town conference where masks and proof of vaccination were required.