4/27 It’s Monday and I bid you welcome to the mouth of madness. I didn’t say that last Friday. Or I did. I’m not taking any questions. I didn’t say what I said. I didn’t say what I said I said. I certainly didn’t say what YOU said I said. The media misreported what I […]
Corona Diaries 9—Who is that masked man?
4/26 He’s somebody who gives a $hit. To clarify. Every time I go out in public, I’m wearing the mask. I’m not wearing it to protect myself. It doesn’t work that way. I’m wearing it to protect you and demonstrate that I am a good citizen. We should ALL be wearing them. Hell, I have […]
Corona Diaries 8—When a false negative isn’t all that positive
4/16 From an email I wrote to my block’s listservDear Neighbors: You can just bowl me down with a feather. My COVID-19 test came back today as negative and Kara and I were both amazed. Perhaps I imagined the 18 days of fever, chest tightness and stomach distress. There’s also the 30% false negative rate […]
Wine Just in Time
Friends might recall how a couple weeks ago, my close call, slightly nearer to death experience on a Megabus changed the way I think about drinking wine (i.e., drink the good stuff now, because you never know). Well, I laid a magnum bottle of this ruby port down in 1998 and sat on it like […]
Dreamers’ nightmare–the cost is too high
Pity The Dreamers. Through friendships with educators and just living an urban life, I’ve come to know lots of immigrants. Many of them are Hispanic. I assume most of them are here legally, but I would never presume to ask. The people I know are family-oriented, hard-working, America-loving, pretty conservative, solid members of society and […]
