COVID-19

As part of their inauguration activities, at 5:30 on January 19, Biden and Harris are having a memorial to acknowledge the loss we have experienced from COVID-19.

I started very slow on Medium this month. The craziness in Washington, DC, has distracted me. I am guessing here but I think that the way this new Medium system…

Parenting

My grandfather always said that living is like licking honey off a thorn.
– Louis Adamic

My Grandfather Marlo was a professional grifter. A sharp-dressed handsome man, he made his living cheating people. He talked fast but with an educated Southern lilt — people who judged his book by its cover got cheated. My mother would say Grandpa could sell matches in hell.

Going to the Park?

After he and my Grandmother divorced, Grandfather became a nomad, traveling the United States, never settling down. When I was a child, he’d live with my mother and father off and on when he was in town. I was my Grandfather’s first grandchild and his favorite. He doted on me. Often, he would take me to the park, or so my parents thought. …

Humor

“Take care of your body; it is the only place you have to live.”–Jim Rohn

The Good Old Days

When I was younger, I would get up at 5 a.m. I would snap wide awake and leap out of bed before the alarm rang. Heading to the gym, I would gleefully anticipate my workout. Taking part in the morning boot camp, where a trainer put us through grueling strength and cardio exercises, made my day. I looked forward to this daily torment.

I admit to being the annoying brownnoser in the class, often walking up to the front to showcase my strength and dexterity while clapping loudly. Loving it when the trainer would jump off the platform during one of my favorite routines, letting me lead. Counting the pushups for a newbie was a thrill. Sometimes, when the class was large, she pressed me into service to help others to achieve perfection in their techniques. …

News

“America will never be destroyed from the outside. If we lose our freedoms it will be because we have destroyed ourselves from within.” — Abraham Lincoln, paraphrased from 1838 Young Men’s Lyceum of Springfield, IL

I work hard to be well informed. I read and watch both opinions that agree with and those that disagree with me. So, I’m on CNN, Fox, and MSNBC. I read the Wall Street Journal, the New Yorker, the Hill, the New York Times, and the Week among others. I scour websites that support my views and those that don’t. Right now, at this moment, the buzz is one of craziness. Many are sad to recognize they were part of an insurrection on January 6th, while others are gleeful and wanting more violence. …

My husband says I sleep like a goat in a burlap bag. I’m everywhere. He, on the other hand sleeps as if he is in King Tut’s tomb. He lays down and doesn’t move. I admit that I have woken up on the floor, at the bottom of the bed and totally horizontal lying across him like a small “t”. I know that I snore, slobber, grunt and make small farts while I sleep. We have a beautiful pair of red sheets that we only use every now and then. Why? Because I slobber on the pillowcases in a disgusting fashion leaving white streaks all over them. My body is cool when I slide into bed with him with my feet being ice cold. Why, you ask does he want me in his bed? I can’t answer that question. …