Sparkling Isolation – Day 248
Down the rabbit hole. One of the most pervasive phrases I have heard – and used during my time of “sparkling isolation” – is the one that opens this post, …
Sparkling Isolation – Days 151 through 247
I’m still here. At the beginning of the pandemic, I don’t think most of us thought it would last this long – at least the quarantine part. Alas, here we …
Sparkling Isolation – Days 144 through 150
What day is it? Last week, I posted my first ‘weekly’ version of this series. I realized that I was repeating myself too often and felt that it was time …
Sparkling Isolation – Days 136 through 143
Slowing down. After a solid 135 days of posting every day about my quarantine experiences, I finally hit a wall. I realized that the “Groundhog Day” nature of this experience …
Sparkling Isolation – Day 135
To be or not to be. I had a strange emotional day yesterday – so strange in fact, that I was utterly exhausted by it and went to bed at …
Sparkling Isolation – Day 134
Power failure. This morning I had a unique quarantine experience – a power failure in my neighborhood. About 8 a.m. I heard a loud pop and the electricity abruptly went …
Sparkling Isolation – Day 133
The need to know. I have always had an obsession with definitions – the ability to know what something means and by extension the ability to put a label on …
Sparkling Isolation – Day 132
A musical interlude. Some days, I run across a song that says what I’m thinking far more eloquently than I could. One of my new favorite bands is an amazing …
Sparkling Isolation – Day 131
I don’t have a thing to wear. The struggle is real. I have plenty of clothes, but every day I struggle with the thought, “Why bother?” The only thing that …
Sparkling Isolation – Day 130
Inside looking out. Today I spent another entire today inside my apartment without once stepping outside. The weather was sunny, a bit hot and humid but not unbearable. There was …
Sparkling Isolation – Day 129
Decluttering. I have long been a fan of decluttering. Back in the 90s I trained to become a Feng Shui consultant and worked professionally as one for a number of …
Sparkling Isolation – Day 128
Pong. Anyone of a certain age will remember the original Atari video game – Pong. It was released in 1972, but I think my first copy of it was a …