As of yesterday John Prine was still in intensive care with pneumonia in both lungs. Looking for something else, I happened upon his March 2018 NPR Tiny Desk Concert. He does four songs. I especially like the second, which begins at 3:35: You don’t have to be alone. Just come on home. Oh, but wait. At 7:43 is one of my favorites: All the Best. It makes me sad to listen to this, but it’s […]
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Day 17: A Sorry State of Affairs
This just in: the government is recommending that we all do wear cloth masks in public places. Perhaps I should be reading the U.S. news less because it’s terrifying: shuttered businesses (with USPS possibly closing in June) and massive unemployment claims, field hospitals set up in Central Park and ventilator shortages, the threats on Dr. Fauci’s life and Covid-19 conspiracy theories. Regarding the Administration’s stunning mishandling of the crisis, yesterday in an interview Noam Chomsky […]
Read moreDay 16: Diminishing Sanity
The last few days my blog has been acting up and not letting anyone post comments. Thank you, Marianna, for the bug report and the testing. I did fix it all by myself, even without my tech gurus Molly or Jill, but I have no idea how. So anyway, if the spirit moves any of you—my countless readers—to leave feedback: it should be working again. Let me know by e-mail if it’s not. For weeks […]
Read moreDay 15: Mom’s Soup
The better news is that John Prine is reportedly stable in a Nashville hospital, though he’s not out of the woods. Thanks, Sydney, for making sure I knew his progress report. That guy is a fighter. He’s beaten cancer twice, and now this. Here’s a video of him a million years ago, doing one of my favorite songs: That’s the Way That the World Goes Round. I got a call from my next-door neighbor, telling […]
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