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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 are nine months in and things look like they are just going to keep on keeping on. I started by creating a daily post, then …

Sparkling Isolation – Days 151 through 247Read More

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 to move to a less frequent approach to the chronicle of my quarantine experiences. Today focuses on Sparkling Isolation Days 144 – 150. This week …

Sparkling Isolation – Days 144 through 150Read More

Some day. Mother’s Day always makes me melancholy. My mother died in 2003 and since then this holiday has become a reminder of what was lost. Oh, I know that we are always told to celebrate the memory and to focus on the good times we had. That sound lovely in theory, right? It’s not …

Sparkling Isolation – Day 54Read More

April showers. Today has been a cold, wet, rather gloomy day. In the past, during spring months when the weather can be so changeable and so often dismal like this, I have been able to cheer myself up through social connections – going out to the gym for a great workout, visiting the Art Institute …

Sparkling Isolation – Day 39Read More

Don’t borrow trouble. I remember my mother using that phrase frequently and today I needed to remember her pithy advice. I have always had a rather pessimistic view of life. I won’t bore anyone with the details of all my childhood traumas that helped create this negative view of life, but my negativity bias is …

Sparkling Isolation – Day 25Read More