COVID-19 – Write on the World

What do you get when you mix a cast-iron skillet, four fed-up women, and a global pandemic? A page-turner that asks whether murder might sometimes be the most reasonable option.

The cover of The Best Way to Bury Your Husband by Alexia Casale — Get your copy of The Best Way to Bury Your Husband by Alexia Casale from my online bookstore today!

Alexia Casale’s The Best Way to Bury Your Husband is a dark comedy with claws—and a heart. It opens with Sally, a woman who kills her abusive husband with a skillet and finds herself surprisingly calm about the corpse. Her kids are grown and out of the house, so her main concern isn’t about custody—it’s about what comes next. How do you dispose of a body? And what do you do when you realize you’re not the only woman in town asking that question?

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To wear a mask, or not to wear a mask? That seems to be the battleground on which so many Americans appear to be ready to die during this COVID-19 crisis. Why are we battling each other? Are the heated arguments with the people we love really worth it? Is this pandemic making us all feel so helpless that we just need to feel like we’re doing something, even if all we can do is either try to enforce mask-wearing on others or try to preserve our right not to wear a mask?

Homemade masks for the pandemic — My mom and Aunt Becki have been cranking out masks like you wouldn’t believe the past several weeks to make sure everyone that wants one can have one. These are some my mom sent me. Strawberry Shortcake, yeah!

I mean, you should probably wear a mask. That’s what the doctors and scientists are telling us to do, and it seems legit to me. But what if it doesn’t seem legit to you? I mean, yeah, you did wake up an American citizen this morning, so you do have a right to do whatever you want to do, as long as you’re not infringing on someone else’s rights. Continue reading “To wear a mask, or not to wear a mask? That is the #COVID-19 question.” →