Every Tuesday, I go grocery shopping. On Mondays, the day before, I clean the refrigerator so I can unload those groceries easily. I love routines—they offer predictability and structure. On this most recent Tuesday, after parking my car in the grocery store's lot, I realized I had forgotten my mask. After a glorious Sunday hike along the Columbia River Gorge among those purple wildflowers called grass widows, it had lain in my backpack still. Normally such a small detail wou