Saturday, June 13, 2020

Day 96 Nat'l Emergency: Tip-toeing to Normalcy

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Seventeen weeks, exactly 119 days, from my last residence in a barber’s chair I had my hair cut Thursday. A few days earlier I visited my ...
Thursday, June 11, 2020

Day 94 of Nat'l Emergency: Uplifting Words, Some Not

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I don’t normally read newspaper ads. I tape television shows for later viewing so I can fast forward through ads. It is a rather cavalier ...
Wednesday, June 10, 2020

Day 93 Nat'l Emergency: Firestorm in Publishing, Plague in a World Without End

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My professional world—the business of journalism—has been roiled for the last week (longer, to be sure, but let’s stick with the current f...
Wednesday, June 3, 2020

Day 86 Nat'l Emergency: Religion and Politics Don't Mix

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I wonder, exactly what type of Bible did Ivanka Trump pull out of her $1,540 MaxMara handbag for her father to use in his photo-op appeara...
Monday, June 1, 2020

Day 84 of Nat'l Emergency: Bell's Palsy, Eight Minutes 46 Seconds of Terror, a Quizzical Coincidence

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I’m wearing a crooked smile these days. Not by choice, mind you. Seems I have a mild case of Bell’s palsy. Almost three weeks ago, on ...
Monday, May 25, 2020

Day 77 of Nat'l Emergency: More Voices, Some Amusing, Mostly Reasonable

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Not everyone sees the same Facebook and Twitter feeds I do, so here are some of my favorite postings from the last few days: A former ...
Sunday, May 24, 2020

Day 76 Nat'l Emergency: Remembering My Last Aunt

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If this had turned out to be a normal Memorial Day weekend Gilda and I would be in Colorado at the Allenspark Lodge outside Denver attendi...