Tag: Covid

  • “Who moves into an R.V. and hits the road

    in the middle of a pandemic while our democracy and society crumble? This girl!” This girl goes by the handle Badass Cross Stitch, but her civilian moniker is Shannon Downey, and she is out to teach us all to embroider. On her way across the country she is offering on-line tutorials about hoops, fabric, needles…

  • In our time, we will drone

    to our grandchildren, it was so harsh, it was so difficult. Every day a challenge. Look at the newspaper, Covid infections run amok, out-of-control wildfires, people who had clearly lost all of their political marbles. Violence in prisons, larcenous gangs performing break and snatch routines in luxury stores. Was it really that bad, grandmother? Well, yes. And…

  • The crater was there

    when we arrived at Jones Beach. Could this be a more perfect beach day? I commented that if the deep azure of the sky had a few puffy clouds it might be even more perfect. It was wonderful, though, getting on the sand so early that the crater was just feet away from our chairs.…