It has taken me two weeks to write this blog. The first ten days were spent procrastinating and resisting every step along the way. For the past three days, although I split the task into small parts, doing one step at a time, my fingers continued to move across the… Read More »One Step Forward, Two Steps Back
This week more and more data and details about the pandemic have been directed at us. How does all that information affect us? How does it impact our emotions? And most importantly, where does it all go? Most of it, according to popular thinking, is stored in the left-brain hemisphere.… Read More »Our Emotions on a Roller Coaster
It has been hard for me to practice mindfulness and reach a state of calm during these past few months of Covid 19. Judging from the statistics we see about depression, drug overdoses, suicides, and other psychological challenges, many people feel the same. Some of us feel we are living… Read More »Mindfulness-And Finding Your Calm
Being a kid should be fun. This is a time for children learning, using their imagination, testing their skills against the world. But being a kid during a pandemic is no fun at all. Not being able to go to school to meet up with friends, challenge their intellect, and… Read More »Nothing Easy About School This Fall
We are five months into the Covid-19 pandemic, a period that is threatening to be the darkest since the second world war. And as in war, the world is engulfed in uncertainty. From the day it appeared, everything about it was shrouded in uncertainty, how it originated, how it is… Read More »No Certain End to Uncertainty
The worst of times and the best of times*—this may be how we will remember the Covid 19 era. Optimists have suggested that, with the virus forcing people to stay home and reflect, something good may come from it. Thousands of suddenly unoccupied minds have been searching for good ideas… Read More »Ideas Can Thrive In A Pandemic
Yesterday morning, I turned on the CNN news and watched it for a few minutes, then I switched to MSNBC for their perspective. I haven’t done this for a few weeks, although watching television news has been my go-to practice for several years. CNN’s broadcast featured a report on how… Read More »Can We Trust the News?
While venturing downtown in our city to have dinner last Sunday, determined to support one of our favorite restaurants, we were confronted with the stark effects of the pandemic. No, we weren’t intimidated by sneezing, coughing people who might have been carrying the virus. Nor did we feel uncomfortable about… Read More »Businesses Flattened Along with Curve
I took it seriously when the WHO declared a pandemic was taking hold across the world. Whatever happened next will be a case for history, but from that moment on, I lived within its shadow, at least for the next few weeks. It changed me for a while. I couldn’t… Read More »No More Walking, Doctors Say
Last week, we learned that some stores in our city were finally allowed to open. Two days ago, I walked across the Johnson Street bridge for the first time in months. It’s always been my favorite route to town, one that I have taken hundreds of times. Yet on Wednesday… Read More »When Stores Open, Will We Be There?
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