COVID Diaries Day 200 – New Habits, New Normal?
What things do I wish that would stick around from the COVID experience? I came across this question on Twitter and it got me thinking. The comments, as expected, were divided between appreciation for the evolved human response to a pandemic, to the ignorant disdain for anything that required accepting any personal responsibility in preventing the spread of the virus.
Love is Dead – Casualty of the Divorce
I wanted the opposite of what my mother had. Instead I ended up in somewhat the same place — and I'm not trying again.
The Mother of All Resentment
Lunch with my mother brings up all kinds of resentment. Reminders that my mother is a narcissist.
More Adventures in Social Distancing
As the pandemic progresses, my state is reopening businesses in stages. I don’t know how they decide what can reopen when, or more importantly, why? But I have tamped down my panic and gone out while still exhibiting caution. It has been an experience in otherworldly interaction.
In the Navy – Tales of Misogyny
A Chief asked me to step down from a committee I'd chaired for two years so his buddy could get the eval bullet. I said no.
