The Big Clench: Grateful Thru Anxiety

My stomach is constantly clenching and aching. I'm scared and anxious. But I'm trying not to fixate on the horror and instead be grateful. I am grateful for so many things. I am grateful that: I cook.  I cut my own hair, and Joe's hair too. I love where I live. We can still afford cable TV kinda. I married my best friend. I cook. We're living extremely lean because I haven't worked steadily in several years. Since I had my nervous breakdown...

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I guess I say nothing, because what's the point?

I miss the library. Just before I stopped leaving the house altogether, I went for a walk and ran into an older neighbor who told me he is "not buying into all the bullshit." He stood too close and he exhaled his cigarette smoke and he sneered and told me he's just coming home from giving his friend a ride somewhere, that he's not changing anything just because of some virus. He's not the only person that I know who is angrily objecting...

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Mama and The Dude

When my mom first met Joe, during Christmas some years back (I honestly can't remember which year), she loved him right away. During the evening at one point, she took me aside and said "Have you ever seen The Big Lebowski?" I laughed and said yes, we'd seen it many times, it's a favorite. She proclaimed that Joe is the Dude, and that's what she started to call him. So now she'll say on the phone, "How's The Dude?"  Every now and then,...

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Out of an abundance of caution: In response to a Facebook rant

Yes, most if not all of us have been in contact with it already! Yet we are all putting up with this bullshit! WTF people wake the fuck up, we locked down stopped it's spread built our immunity so now it's time to get back at it! We have something called an immune system remember, if we didn't the human race wouldn't have survived for thousands and thousands and thousands of years! Notice, I didn't say, get the economy moving again, no because...

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Disinfectant. Injections.

“So supposing we hit the body with a tremendous, whether it’s ultraviolet or just very powerful light and I think you said that hasn't been checked but you’re going to test it. And then I said supposing you brought the light inside the body, which you can do either through the skin or in some other way... sounds interesting... And then I see the disinfectant where it knocks [the virus] out [from a surface] in a minute, one minute, and is there...

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Out like a lamb my ass.

It's a fierce month of Marpril. It's the Eleventy-ninth of Marpril and the wind is blowing down trees and taking the siding off triple-deckahs in Allston Rock City. It's been a rough month, kids....

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