Tanka a lot, August I am no poet, and I know it But I admire poetry a whole lot (though if I didn’t, I’d never admit it — what kind of person doesn’t like poetry?). Although I write all the time, it’s very…
It won’t be the same, and that could be good — or not Tired of the coronavirus? It’s not tired of you As Americans reel from economic duress and collective cabin fever, with no steady hand on the ship of state’s…
Growth = trying hard at something hard We are all being tempered by the times we live in As a verb, the word “temper” has two meanings: to improve the hardness and elasticity of metal, and to act as a counterbalancing…
Air travel in the time of COVID-19 What would it take to get you back on an airplane? We seem to have reached a collective understanding that the general quarantine measures under which the vast majority of us lived during…
An Accident in the Time of COVID-19 There are no good times to get hurt, but some times are worse As in, during a pandemic that affects the entire health care system. Due to a most wretched adventure a little over…