4/12 Happy Easter dear friends and family who celebrate this the most important holiday in Christendom. Pushing two week of inactivity and isolation I’ve had some corona diaries dark days and am not quite risen myself yet, but I do feel slightly improved. Kara has been taking excellent care of me, trying to tempt my appetite in […]
Corona Diaries 5—Death vigils past and present
4/10 2:00 a.m. This early morning 11 years ago, Vicki and I were sitting vigil at our father’s hospice bedside. Our other brothers and sisters were making their own desperate journeys to be at Saul’s bedside. I don’t remember who spelled me in the morning. Maybe it was Mom, because I know she didn’t leave his […]
Corona Diaries 4—I hate to be critical but …
April 5 at 12:33 AM · Donald Trump is trying to build a campaign message around his image as a wartime president. But as a commander in chief, Cadet Bone Spurs is bringing up the rear. “I would leave it up to the governors,” Trump said Friday, when asked about his government’s sclerotic, chaotic, response. Trouble […]
Corona Diaries 3—Twice Bitten
4/3/2020 A beautiful early spring day and I’ve spent a restless couple nights with a lowgrade fever and the incumbent aches and pains of fever. My wife got her test results back this morning and she’s positive. Two nights of fevers—I don’t believe in coincidences. Our PCP practice told her that there’s no need to […]
Corona Diaries 2–Who are the heroes?
3/31 Gratitude in times of crisis. For the nurses, doctors, cops, grocers and clerks. But also for reporters, editors, photographers, publishers, the people who make sure we get the latest news untainted by political spin. To the journalists who get shouted down by an ungrateful and megalomaniac nutball president. Who get jeered and cursed at […]
