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Quarantine Diary #332 Reading about Trees & Living with Cats

February 8, 2021

Posted by Mary Beth

My personal goal is to write this in one day. Sometimes my thoughts and ideas fly and dip like ‘always soaring never landing’ albatrosses – but do you know what happens to people who pursue albatrosses? They end up in the drink. Which is where more of my writing ends than you’d think.

Quarantine Diary #324 Thoughts on Getting the Vaccine

January 31, 2021

Posted by Mary Beth

This week I received a Covid vaccine. Last week Len and I received emails from Froedtert that they were making vaccination appointments for people already registered in their system who are over 65. I’ve never been so glad to be so old. We signed up, I got the shot (Pfizer) this week, Len gets his tomorrow.

Quarantine Diary #320

January 27, 2021

Posted by Mary Beth

How many feelings have you cycled through since the Inauguration? I’ve been the Lance Armstrong (without the drugs or cancer) of ups, downs, responses, relief, and outrage.

I read that the Twitter word trending last Thursday morning was “slept.” As in “I slept well last night for the first time in four years. How about you?”

Quarantine Diary #312

January 19, 2021

Posted by Mary Beth

“You know me, I think there ought to be a big old tree right there. And let's give him a friend. Everybody needs a friend.” ― Bob Ross

This tree lives in Waukesha and stopped me in my tracks when I was out for a walk.

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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.

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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