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
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?
I know you can barely see the ducklings, but they’re there—all eleven of them! I’ve been catching glimpses of this mother duck for years, but this is the first time I’ve been able to take her picture. So, when she appeared, striding at warp speed around the bend in our… Read More »Seeing New Beginnings
Quite frankly, I’m worried. Our neighboring country seems to be sinking deeper and deeper into an alarming dystopian, circus show era, and I can’t help but wonder what we can do beyond cringing and hope that this will pass? The options are few, but here they are, as I see… Read More »Pinning our Hope on the Millennials
I know it’s only symbolic, and time moves on whether we record it or not, but a new year has always been significant for me. As the calendar wound down this past week to the 31st of December, I couldn’t help but feel a twinge of anticipation. This year the… Read More »In a New Decade, Is There Hope For a Better World?
This post started off as a litany of complaints about my difficulty with cooking while in pain from osteoarthritis, a condition I blogged about last week. I was all set to whine about not being able to find helpful kitchen tools, but soon discovered I was wrong; instead, I found… Read More »Gracefully Age in Place with the Help of Scientists, Inventors and Robots!
Every once in a while, when I am busy, my husband Bob will go off to our local grocery to buy a few things for an easy deli dinner. It’s not as healthy as my cooking, I know, but I rationalize that I don’t use the deli often, and it… Read More »The Dawn of the Plastics Revolution, and How it Changed the World.
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