Looking back, before COVID erupted in March 2020, Doug and I may have had it! Something fast and harsh knocked us for a loop in February. I caught what I thought was a cold and shared. That wasn’t a kind thing. Doug wound up on heavy meds. Shortly after we...
The resurgence of COVID-19 through the Delta variant daily reinforces old stumbling blocks —specifically information overload. And confusion. ( Delta is more contagious than Expected ) How on earth are we back where we were, with lots of sick people, overworked...
Déjà vu all over again. As I began a new novel, A Gentleman in Moscow, (and a painting), I felt like I was in a flashback. In the novel the main character, Count Alexander Rostovis, has been sentenced to live out the rest of his life on "house arrest" in the Metropol...
Painting Painting pink tulips in February has been a good use of time. Listening to a biography of Charles Dickens while I paint has also been a good use of time, especially for one who read more Cliffs Notes than Dickens’ originals. Dickens was like the nineteenth...
The First Week In the first week of the new year and the second week after the second cataract surgery . . . I have no complaints. Indeed, mindful I am of so much for which I am thankful; esp. as the clarity of my vision sharpens, and driving at night is no longer...
Waiting In between eye surgeries what I was told is true. Now, with one surgery down and one to go, I see better without my glasses; except for up close reading. And when I put on older specs, it is like putting on the former cataract. Talk about a memory lane not...
In a few days, voter turn-out will be one for the record books — whether it's a strong showing or a dud. We are going to learn how our fellow citizens have processed all the news and views of the world in which we live. No more speculations! A Poem on Voter...
Half a century ago, we were angry with each other and the government because of the Vietnam war, civil rights — and Watergate. Then the Supreme Court decided abortion was a constitutional right. (9 Things You Should Know About Roe v Wade) Fifty years ago,...
Changing a Little Equation (Note: I consulted no math book to double check my assumptions about my life’s little equation,— only for the “art.” ) A grim statistic is changing my life's little equation: Covid deaths in the USA have reached 1,000,000. COVID is spiking...
The day after Easter is not unlike the day after Christmas. For those who are fortunate enough to have it off, — and once upon a time, many, many people did — it’s a day of recovery, reflections, and reconnoitering. A Day of Recovery I have been recovering from two...
Daily, I feel like I am watching a slow-motion rape of an independent nation by another -- even as news reports the fierce Ukrainian resistance and all nations in the world save four condemned the brutal assault. For all the Bible I say I know, why do I keep...
The serendipitous course of our small Bible study delights and disturbs me. The readings have been surprisingly pertinent in what feels like a new watershed moment. First, we studied the book of Hebrews; its message was timely: don’t let increasing troubles shake your...
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