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• Reaction YouTubes and other hits for the Pandemic Afflicted

  May 23, 2020

  Yes, I watch a lot of YouTube videos.  I would not say I’m addicted, but if all the places on the Internet, including game sites which I never visit or play, YouTube is probably right at the top or near it for go-to information, enlightenment, entertainment or pure, non-stop mindless distraction ...

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• Newspaper Days

  May 20, 2020

  A tropical storm off the coast of Florida has moved out of sea.  It was the  first named storm of the dreaded approaching hurricane season.    Those of you who don’t live along the coast, count your blessings..  Once again we’re faced with an early start to hurricane season.  I dread it.  It’s th...

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• Travel, backroads and memory

  May 18, 2020

  Deep in the stillness of another  night of the coronavirus quarantine, my mind is relaxed and wandering off into the past where the present has taken me.   So many things are different now that I’m wondering what it will be like when and if things return to more or less what they were before the&...

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• Mother’s Day

  May 11, 2020

  May 10, 2020 I have a confession to make. I didn’t remember it was Mother’s Day! I woke up this morning (actually it was 1 pm because I stay up all night) with a dull headache. I felt slightly depressed and disoriented. This is unusual for me. My first thought was that the quarantine was…

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• Pandemic survey

  May 4, 2020

    I haven’t seen many surveys on the pandemic, so I decided to create my own.  Here are questions I ask myself and which I have answered here.  For the most part these questions don’t lend themselves to short and snappy answers.  It took me quite a while this evening to complete this.  My go...

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• Mom’s memorial service would have been today

  April 26, 2020

  April 25, 2020 My dear mother passed away on January 28 after many years of struggling with diabetes and vascular dementia. I thank God I was able to be with her and take care of her all those years with the assistance of five home-aide/caregivers who  became like family to us. I often think of&h...

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• On food, groceries and sensory perception in the Age of the Pandemic

  April 21, 2020

  First of all, let me say that I am more thankful than ever in my life to have enough food to eat and to be able to purchase more if I run low, which I am now. When I read about food banks nationwide scrambling to meet he needs of millions of newly laid off…

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• Elvis: An appreciation

  April 14, 2020

  The days are passing quickly for me because there are so many things to occupy my mind as week after week passes in these days of mandated stay-at-home edicts and social distancing.  All quite bizarre and yet with each passing day, and with my new routines becoming more entrenched, a “new normal”...

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• Life’s completely upended

  April 8, 2020

  . Life is so quietly surreal these days that lying here in bed tonight I wonder if I’m even truly conscious of how different everything is now, entering the fourth week of isolating myself at home and practicing social/physical distancing every time I go anywhere, which has only been to walk for ...

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