Cabin fever

This week hasn’t been quite as I expected….

John I. Carney
5 min readJan 21, 2024

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Selfie of the author, John Carney, wearing a stocking cap and heavy winter coat and standing in front of his apartment building. The lawn is covered with snow. Carney’s light-sensitive eyeglass lenses have fully darkened.

My original plan for the week of Jan. 14 was that on Monday, Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Day, I would be off work along with the rest of county government. I would go to work on Tuesday, but would get to bed early Tuesday night.

Very early Wednesday morning, a friend of mine from church would pick me up and take me to Vanderbilt Tullahoma-Harton…

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John I. Carney

Author of “Dislike: Faith and Dialogue in the Age of Social Media,” available at http://www.lakeneuron.com/dislike