Coronavirus has done far more than kill a lot of people. It has exposed a lot about us as people and as a society. There’s the good, of course. Americans are great in a crisis. Always have been. We’ve seen oceans of kindness and sweat poured into preventing and beating back … [Read more...]
Notes from a Self-Quarantine: Who ate all the yogurt?
Notes from a Self-Quarantine … There’s a scene from the 1989 Batman movie with Michael Keaton where the Joker has poisoned the nation’s makeup and personal product supply and TV news anchors suddenly look all pale, disheveled and baggy-eyed, in other words ordinary. That’s … [Read more...]
The ego that ate Trump’s chances in Michigan
In the musical “Little Shop of Horrors,” Audrey II, the man-eating plant, sings “You can do it! Feed me, Seymour, feed me all night long, ha ha ha ha ha! Cause if you feed me, Seymour, I can grow up big and strong.” Seymour obeys, and sure enough, the plant grows so big and … [Read more...]
Perspective, it’s a beautiful thing
When people think the sky is falling, there’s an obvious risk in saying “Yes, it is … but it’s also not.” I’m going to take that risk. Yes, the coronavirus is awful. It’s killed roughly 12,000 worldwide so far. But it could have killed more. Believe it or not, the world … [Read more...]
We need a vaccine for another kind of virus, too
We can learn a lot from coronavirus. Lesson 1: Life is precious and we are all fragile, so take care of yourself and others, especially the very old and very young, for they are the most vulnerable. Lesson 2: Wash your damned hands, people, and not just after using the … [Read more...]
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