Day 13 – Total confirmed cases in US: 104,865 Like Jay-Z, I woke up at 4:44 the other night to ghosts that didn’t have the decency to die. You might think that’s the only thing me and Jay-Z have in common, but it’s not. We’re both American men, born in the 1960s, who write songsContinue reading “Day 13”
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Day 10
Day 10 – Total confirmed cases in the US: 55,225 Fiction, if not the last refuge of a scoundrel, is a list a brief refuge from the number at the top of the page that won’t stop climbing. Today’s distraction is flash fiction and a drawing: The breeze blew sweet in Turner Valley. Slow andContinue reading “Day 10”
Day 7
Day 7 – Total confirmed cases in US: 26,747 The numbers have septupled in less than a week. The opportunity to “flatten the curve” has passed and we won’t know for a while how successful our social distancing has been. Welcome to the first weekend without restaurants, bars, theaters, and zoos. In keeping with ourContinue reading “Day 7”
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 theyContinue reading “Day 4”
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 areContinue reading “Devotion”
