JOURNAL OF A PLAGUE YEAR #14

A post office delivery driver rang the doorbell at a little past nine this morning. In her hands was a cardboard box with the return address for the Edwin Bennett Funeral Home in Scarsdale, N.Y. and a sticker that read, in small type, United States Postal Service, and...

JOURNAL OF A PLAGUE YEAR #13

Mourn on the Fourth of July. Watching President Trump’s Yankee Doodle extravaganza at Mount Rushmore, he and his unmasked audience under the stony gazes of Washington, Jefferson, Lincoln, and Teddy Roosevelt, I was taken back to two points in the past. The first...

JOURNAL OF A PLAGUE YEAR #12

Today is Sunday, June 28, and we have been back In Connecticut a little over a week. Three days ago, we learned that the state has ordered everyone coming in from states experiencing significant increases in the Covid19 virus to self-quarantine for 14 days....

JOURNAL OF A PLAGUE YEAR # 11

The headline in a June 22 Politico dispatch read as follows: ‘THE U.S. HAS HAMSTRUNG ITSELF’: HOW AMERICA BECAME THE NEW ITALY ON CORONA VIRUS. And the subhead: “While Trump touted America’s reopening and watched infections climb, European...

JOURNAL OF A PLAGUE YEAR #10

We arrived in Connecticut yesterday evening at six, after driving 10 hours a day for four days. We covered 2,459 miles through 12 states and over nine major rivers: the Rio Grande, Pecos, Canadian, Cimarron, Mississippi, Ohio, Susquehanna, Delaware, and Hudson. I...

JOURNAL OF A PLAGUE YEAR #9

We left Patagonia at 8:30 a.m.yesterday, on a four-to-five day drive back to Connecticut. By the time we arrived at our first night’s destination, Tucumcari, New Mexico, we learned that Arizona had set a record for new cases of the Covid19 virus. Texas and Florida...