covid – Quiet Strength… and Coffee

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Boggle game letters spelling IDK I don't know

PPE, HEPA, KN95, pivot Let’s forget these words

I got a letter in the mail yesterday. Not an actual handwritten envelope from a friend, but a mass-mailing from the quick oil change spot that I drove through last month. So I plopped it down in the pile of low-priority mail in my kitchen, and didn’t give it another brain cell until today, whenContinue reading “Home is Where the Phone is…”

Synonymously

assortment of letters and numbers from a printing press

OK, we are all so very weary of the pandemic. Call it covid, covid-19, coronavirus, SARS-COV-2, Corona, Rona. We’re all looking forward to the day that it is in our collective rear view mirror. But while the plague’s persisting, we are continually hearing news stories of it… conversing about it… writing through it. I wonderContinue reading “Synonymously”

2020, part XVII

So strange today, walking into one of our public libraries to pick up books that I had reserved online. When you enter the lobby, you are greeted by a library assistant and have to respond to a few covid screening questions; of course, that’s no surprise at all during 2020. I reply to their queriesContinue reading “2020, part XVII”