Cutting my own hair
I’d already been due for a haircut when the whole COVID thing hit – in fact, overdue. I have the sort of hair that’s hard to cut well, and so I’d been putting it off. Turns out that wasn’t the … Continue reading →
Category Archives: Me, myself, and I
They’re all here for me
I get several emails every day that chorus, “We’re here for you!” The pharmacy, the grocery store, Walmart, my doctors, the hairdresser I went to briefly ten years ago, ditto a trainer and physical therapist. The universities I attended in … Continue reading →
Part II: Is this “just a bad flu”? (deaths, ventilators, and estimates)
[NOTE: Part I can be found here.] Flu (otherwise known as influenza) has been around far longer than COVID. Flu comes every year and it kills a lot of people. So one might think that we know a great deal … Continue reading →
How are you tackling the shutdown? I know what some YouTubers are doing
What are you doing to keep yourselves busy? For me it’s rather simple. I still do a lot of reading and writing and thinking (hopefully not in that exact order). That’s what I do each day anyway, and it takes … Continue reading →
This and that
The “this” is that I’ve had a lot of internet trouble today. That always makes me break out into a cold sweat. It seems to have been fixed, but you never know. And right now I – like so many … Continue reading →
Comforting images
USNS Comfort comes to town: More photos here. Those photos conjure up childhood memories for me. I was born a few years after the end of WWII, but in my childhood there was still a lot of war consciousness. My … Continue reading →
Conversations with friends: “Trump did nothing”
Now that we’re all housebound, I find myself talking on the phone to friends more often. Sometimes they’re people I’m not often in touch with, and – since I don’t ordinarily bring up politics in conversation anyway – most of … Continue reading →
Sleep that knits up the raveled sleeve of care
Sorry for posting a bit late today. I find that one of the many things that happens to me lately is that my sleep has been somewhat more disturbed. I either have trouble falling asleep, or I wake up in … Continue reading →
It took me a while to get in gear today
There’s an awful lot of material to digest these days, and the sheer volume of it takes time. I’m also feeling low – how about you? I try to fight it, but it’s a combination of worry about health, economics, … Continue reading →
Gone are the days: assuming the risk
People used to take things in stride. I realize that by saying that, I sound like an old curmudgeon. But maybe I now understand better why old curmudgeons sound like old curmudgeons. I grew up, as the somewhat-older author of … Continue reading →
Pneumonia primer
When I was in my 40s and quite healthy, I got viral pneumonia. I caught it from my son and husband, who were likewise young and healthy. Fortunately, we all recovered uneventfully, but it still knocked us all out for … Continue reading →
The computer program can’t be overriden
I ordered three bottles of vitamins recently from Amazon. It seemed a simple transaction: Amazon would be fulfilling the order, and they had them in stock. They’re vitamins I happen to like and it’s almost impossible to find them elsewhere, … Continue reading →