Part five of my ongoing journal entries about life in the time of the 2020 Covid-19 coronavirus pandemic. Part One (Jan-Mar, 2020) is here. Part Two (April 2020) is here. Part Three (May 2020) is here. Part Four (June 2020) is here. July 4, 2020 Happy Birthday, America. It seems an appropriate time to reflect. …
Part four of my ongoing journal entries about life in the time of the 2020 Covid-19 coronavirus pandemic. Part One (Jan-Mar, 2020) is here. Part Two (April 2020) is here. Part Three (May 2020) is here. June 1 It’s been a sad and difficult week in America. Just a week ago was Memorial Day though …
Part three of my ongoing journal entries about life in the time of the 2020 Covid-19 coronavirus pandemic, with input from Laurie in Spain. Part One (Jan-Mar, 2020) is here. Part Two (April, 2020) is here. May 1 It’s May Day. Seems appropriate. There’s a report out today from the University of Minnesota (actual report, …
Part two of my ongoing journal entries about life in the time of the 2020 Covid-19 coronavirus pandemic, with input from Laurie in Spain. Part One is here. April 2, 2020 I’m taking it as good news that since we’ve been home more than two weeks, we can definitely say we didn’t get sick from …
With the 2020 global coronavirus pandemic well underway, I’ve decided to collect my personal journal entries in one place to get a sense of the flow of events. I won’t get any awards for insight, but want to track developments from my perspective as they go. We are in largely uncharted waters and I think …
Barb, Allie and I returned to Aruba for a few days of sun. We made the arrangements months ahead, but happened to travel just as the corona virus pandemic started to really impact Europe and the US. It didn’t change our trip very much, but raised the level of anxiety and made it hard for …
A running tab of movies I’ve seen in theaters or at home, and a quick comment about them. I’ve succumbed to the idea of assigning a personal score for each film. My scale: 4 Stars – One of the best, well recommended 3 Stars – Recommended, but some issues here and there 2 Stars – Problematic, hard to recommend 1 Star …
A record of our preparations for the music festival and vacation originally scheduled for November 2020 in Punta Cana. Getting Started For a number of years, I toyed with the idea of going on the Cayamo Cruise which annually gathered a bunch of my favorite musicians for a week in the Caribbean. The cruise was …
I went to Asheville, NC, to see Laurie and Sue who were housesitting at Susanna’s place while she and the kids were in the Galapagos for an extended stay. Monday, January 27 I flew from BWI to Asheville on Delta via Atlanta. We had a slight delay when they had to switch planes in Atlanta …
It’s the evening of December 10, 2019, after the Democrats announced their anticlimactic popgun of two impeachment charges. Donald Trump’s 2020 Strategy just popped into my head. I haven’t had most of these ideas before and haven’t seen them written anywhere else before, so I want right of first appearance. The script outline for Trump’s …