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Quarantine Diary #308 1/15/2021
January 15, 2021
Posted by Mary Beth

My life is pretty fine, and I bet yours is, too. Warm place to live. Food to eat. Friends to share and laugh with - even if we have to do it via Zoom.

Quarantine Diary #307 Brain Names
January 14, 2021
Posted by Mary Beth

Remember when there was no autism? Sure, there were kids in our schools who were weirdly able to remember stuff, or were hard to control, or whose emotions triggered at the oddest time. We generally ignored those kids. Those of us who were kind did, anyways. Others bullied. 

Quarantine Diary #306 Hunched Over & Paying Attention
January 13, 2021
Posted by Mary Beth

I am going to write some Quarantine Diary entries again. There’s a lot going on and sometimes it helps to hear a small voice as well as the big voices of journalists, pundits, networks, the other public media we follow.

Organ Pipe Cactus National Monument
Quarantine Diary #292 New Year's Eve
December 31, 2020
Posted by Mary Beth

Many of us feel as if we are in limbo until Biden takes office. I don’t think you need me to say a lot about how long and hard this year has been; we’ve been in this dentist’s chair together.

But...

Did you see how many days quarantine has lasted? 292 days.

So far.

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10/11/2020 This Crazy Advent We're In Now
October 11, 2020
Posted by Mary Beth

This painting is by Andrea Kowch  http://andreakowch.com/

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Quarantine Diary #204 10/4/2020 3 Short Takes
October 4, 2020
Posted by Mary Beth

Three things to say today and none are about our goatish, swag-bellied, canket-blossomed president. How to create a Shakespearean insult. 

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Quarantine Diary #200 The Debate
September 30, 2020
Posted by Mary Beth

Regarding that Debate. 

I’ve been at a zoo when a cranky monkey starts throwing poop. That remembrance came to me last night. Watching Uncle Joe try to answer questions while Trump trash talked everybody and everything except white supremacists – that was damn ugly.

Quarantine Diary #198 Who we still are ...
September 28, 2020
Posted by Mary Beth

I’ve been trying and trying to write but it hasn’t happened so this morning I looked at some of my old stuff and found this from ten days after 9/11. Made me remember who we are.

I think the miserable karma of Trump is happening. I hope we will be okay. I’m not sure how talk about the harm he has done and is doing now. 

But we … we are still who we are.

Quarantine Diary #178 9/10/2020 What retired people do all day …
September 10, 2020
Posted by Mary Beth

This has been a nutty day. Not a bad day, just a day one hopes no one asks, “How is Retirement going, Mary Beth?” For those who are not retired and wonder what we do all day, perhaps this will illuminate what we dare not tell the young.

Quarantine Diary #174 9/3/2020 Where Are Our Founding Fathers & Moms Now?
September 3, 2020
Posted by Mary Beth

The photos are all from Franc Garcia, who took them in Kenosha last week. Thank you, Franc.

Part I.