COVID-19 stories
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Zoom fatigue, snail mail, and poetry: Notes from my quarantine journal
Snail mail / Cindy La Ferle ____ For more features and additional content, please visit the home page. Social media sharing options are located in the beige box below each day’s post. “What a lot we lost when we stopped writing letters to each other. You can’t reread a phone call.” ~Liz Carpenter Friday, May 8 ….Staying connected to friends and family presents a new set of challenges during a pandemic. With the national COVID-19 death toll topping 77,000 and rising daily, social distancing is the best preventative available to us now. But it’s not the easiest.On days when the plaster walls of my home are closing in, it’s tempting to…
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Trapped in an “X-Files” rerun: More notes from my quarantine journal
Cindy La Ferle “What I find fantastic is any notion that there are answers beyond the realm of science. The answers are there. You just have to know where to look.” ~Dana Scully, The X-Files Friday, May 1, 2020 I’m glancing out my home office window as I type this — just in time to spot a neighbor walking a large dog. The dog does its business on my lawn; the neighbor tugs on its leash and walks away without picking up the pile of poop left behind. But I’m too exhausted to pound on the window to rebuke her lack of manners and respect. It’s an apt metaphor for another…