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by Mike Power

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  • Day 4

    Day 4 – Total confirmed cases in US: 9,415 Today is the first day of Spring. It is also two weeks since I went to work so I am a little ahead of the shelter-in-place curve. There are good things that will come of this. They will be heavily outweighed by the bad but they… Read more

  • Day 3

    Day 3 – Total confirmed cases in US: 6,510 Today was supposed to be my first day on vacation in Aruba. I had been pushing myself to finish up a few things, like a job, so I could relax and enjoy a few days away from everything. Then I was reminded that there are some… Read more

  • Plague Diary – Day 2

    Day 2 – Total confirmed cases in US: 4,661 In 1762, when a map of our collection of colonies looked like this: the first St. Patrick’s Day Parade was marched in New York City. From then until now, through wars and blizzards, the parade was never canceled. Until this year. I have lived in this… Read more

  • Plague Diary – Day 1

    Day 1 – Total confirmed cases in US 3,774 I won’t be going to work today, or any day soon as far as I can tell. Unsanitary conditions, in one market, in one town in China, has shut down life across the world. It’s like waiting for an earthquake, only instead of being buried alive… Read more

  • Touching Eternity

    Thirty-nine years ago on this date – it was a Monday, like this one – I found a new kind of love. It wasn’t like any of the kinds of love I’d know to that point but it felt like it included all of them. It transcended each of them and brought them back to… Read more

  • Devotion

    I would like to take a minute to thank my past self for all the hard work he put in to getting me where I am today. I don’t know if I could do such work now but I’m glad I did it when I was able. Devotion, especially, is a trait young people are… Read more