This posting got lost. Wrote it yesterday, when we still had an Acting Secretary of the Navy. Are you still watching the President’s daily reality show? I can’t take my eyes off it. If this was a movie it would fail miserably. Implausible. No one would act that way, and Read more…
While the virus is the single topic worthy of the news, or offshoots from it, there is another event in the background that is starting to define issues that will define specific camps. The election is out there, but it is threatened. While Trump takes the opportunity to take the Read more…
Just couldn’t do it yesterday. Couldn’t write. There is nothing new. Our government has let us down, fatally. There is no spin, no silver lining. I interact on Facebook and find there are tons of people that are still his supporters, still cheerleading this monster, quaking with the opportunity to Read more…
This is relentless! Shouldn’t it have stopped by now? It’s out in the open, exposed, gruesomely naked. The President’s mishandling will be remembered forever, or as long as we have a history, anyway. This would be where shame would kick in for a normal human being, and corrective steps would Read more…
I have a dear friend at work. He is my age, a huge teddy bear of a man. He is an elder in a black evangelical church and his life is defined by his relationship with God. He is nearly my only progressive ally at work, it is Virginia after Read more…
I have decided to treat this time at home as my retirement. I honestly believe it is as close as I’m going to get, as the real thing passed me by. When the virus is controlled to the extent it is going to be, and our economy rises like the Read more…
This is more of a chat, I guess. Random thoughts from a day in the life of Corona. If you have read any of this before, you know in the famous words of CSN&Y (are you old enough?) I’m scared shitless. Not terribly old at 62, but over the Mendoza Read more…
Sitting on the balcony. Gorgeous day. A sleepy Sunday in Richmond, VA. Spring has sprung here. The birds are ecstatic, constant motion and sound, celebrating the abundance, the deliverance from a season of want, of need. The squirrels are playing, chasing each other for no other reason than it’s fun Read more…
So, on Thursday I used the last of my coffee. No problem, I thought, just go to the grocery store and do a weekly shopping trip and load up on supplies. But I couldn’t do it. I was paralyzed to open the door and walk outside. I decided I would Read more…
How can this be real? I am on FB and I still am fighting with naysayers. Within an hour we will pass Italy for number of reported cases. They have been one of the most dramatically effected countries on the planet, but they will be behind us. There are human Read more…