Whether things were allowed was not something I thought about often when living in the city

(I'm back)

I don’t love living in New Jersey, but maybe it’s hard to love living anywhere right now, when so many of the things I like about being alive in a place — meeting friends, hugging them, smiling visible smiles — are fraught with danger. We made the decision to move here at some point in the twelve or so weeks spent mostly indoors, when we had to admit to…