I had always assumed this blog would end in catastrophe, with a photo of a limb in a plaster cast, either a week in, or three years in, I didn’t know. So it feels kind of wonderful that I am signing off, a few hours before strapping on my skates and heading onto the best hock...
Back in the 1600s Charles De Lorme, a doctor who was taking care of the health of European royals, including King Louis XIII and Gaston d’Orléans, son of Marie de Médici, created the first mask and hazmat suit. He and other so-called plague-doctors at the time were wearing an unusu...