Month: September 2021
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Pearl Harbor & 9/11
So much has been said and written about this day. For twenty-years, on 9/11, we hear inspiring stories of sacrifice and courage. I imagine anyone of an age that remembers living through this event, has their own very personal reflections. For my small family, it was an anxious time filled with real uncertainty about the…
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I’m vaccinated and just tested negative. Why aren’t I happy about it?
At this point in 2020, I had started backing off—a little—my incessant nitrile glove usage and started relying more on a mask, especially indoors, since the CDC said that was the more likely way to spread the virus. I continued to sanitize, of course, just in case. The rhetoric over a “vaccine” and when we…
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Real importance, for me at least
I am, generally speaking, a pretty cheerful and upbeat kinda guy. Over the course of my 66-years; while there have been plenty of nasty things occur, those incidents were far enough apart to allow a measure of healing before the next trauma appeared. The first one I recall was when JFK was assassinated. I was…
a life always under construction 