JOURNAL OF A PLAGUE YEAR #42

After outrunning it for two and a half years, Covid finally caught me about the middle of last month and clung to me for a solid two weeks. It affected me more seriously than the rest of my family (see previous post), as if it were vengeful because I’d eluded it...

CORRECTION

In the third paragraph of the recent post, JOURNAL OF A PLAGUE YEAR #41, “sister and brother-in-law” should read “sister-in-law and brother-in-law.” My sister, Patricia Esralew is NOT ill with COVID. My apologies for the misunderstanding.

JOURNAL OF A PLAGUE YEAR #41

The Biden administration has come out with a couple of howlers in the past two weeks or so.  The first was delivered by the Vice-President, responding to an interviewer’s question: “The border is secure.” The second, more recent chuckle-worthy comment was uttered by...

JOURNAL OF A PLAGUE YEAR #40

Anastasia, our middle granddaughter, tested positive for Covid last week, following an 8th-grade field trip, and was quarantined. To the great relief of her parents and grandparents, her symptoms — fever, cough, fatigue — were fairly mild. She’s now almost completely...

JOURNAL OF A PLAGUE YEAR #36

Today’s journal entry will not be about Covid; it will address the question of whether the United States is on the brink of a second civil war, as some scholars and political commentators believe. Civil war, once unmentionable in our political discourse, has...

JOURNAL OF A PLAGUE YEAR # 35

After a four-day drive across this great and troubled republic, we landed in Arizona on Dec. 6, and found that our county here, Santa Cruz,  geographically the smallest in the state at 1,238 square miles, has the second-highest vaccination rate for one dose — 89...