Month: July 2020
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Virtual is not the same as reality
It’s just not the same viewing life electronically. No matter how many proclaim the wonders of the Internet, nothing compares to experience. Consider the difference of “seeing” the Grand Canyon in an Imax theater and actually going and looking over the precipice at that hole in the ground. I’ve done both. In the Imax theater,…
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A time to move
Every time I turn around this year I am updating some familiy member’s address. Our family simply will not stay put. The urge to move has spread through the family like a virus as infectious as COVID-19. It began with son #2. For the past 15 years or so he has shared living quarters with…
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India during COVID-19
This year it wasn’t snow or icy roads that closed schools, shut down businesses and kept folks at home. No, COVID-19 did all that with a vengeance. Grandchildren stayed home. Some parents went to work, others waited for the unemployment and stimulus checks. On Sundays we watched the weekly church service from our lounge chairs…
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Comfort food in isolation
“I had the strangest dream last night,” my husband said one morning (well actually he says that most mornings). “I dreamed about goulash. That sounds so good.” “Hmm. I haven’t made that in a long time,” I replied. For some reason I had been thinking about goulash. My mother used to make it often: a…