Monthly Archives: May 2020

The Morning Wired.

Posted on May 30, 2020 by polloplayer

First it was a hand sanitizer shortage. Perplexing. The threat of a meat shortage. Hmm. Toilet paper disappeared. We rolled with that one, so to speak.  But when I scrolled through the news and saw a headline, oh the most … Continue reading →

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It’s about time.

Posted on May 23, 2020 by polloplayer

I was halfway through the audiobook edition of novelist Penelope Lively’s meandering Dancing Fish and Ammonites: A Memoir before it occurred to me why I must have chosen it from all the books out there in the literary ether. There … Continue reading →

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Hitting the paws button.

Posted on May 16, 2020 by polloplayer

A funny thing happened while we waited for the wheels to fall off. I know it’s been chaos for some and tragedy for others, but for us, with our unimportant and insignificant place in the universe, we’ve somehow washed up … Continue reading →

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Go ask your mom.

Posted on May 9, 2020 by polloplayer

What is Mother’s Day without the brunch? How do we even begin to do this? Of all the family traditions I can think of, torturing your children by making them dress up in the middle of the day and spend … Continue reading →

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Before and again: enough misery to go around.

Posted on May 2, 2020 by polloplayer

Zoomed with a few wise friends the other day and in the midst of our exclamations that we are in this historic moment, we each made a commitment to keep a journal. Someday our grandchildren, or their children, might want … Continue reading →

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