June 4, 2022 Greetings to the Class of 2022! I’m not conceited enough to think you’ll read this, since blogs are relics from around 2000 B.S. (Before Smartphones), which is also before y’all were born. However, I’m too lazy to break up this post into TikTok videos, and since this month marks the…

May 18, 2022 Booster number two is in. Unlike the other shots, this one brought no particular sense of relief, hope, or civic duty. Instead, I had short-lived but tangible side effects: a sudden lethargy and weariness in my bones, which sums up how I feel about the pandemic in general. Two years…

April 27, 2022 I’m a straight white guy, yet belong to what may be the biggest minority group in the country: those who’ve never been infected with the coronavirus. According to new data based on tens of thousands of blood samples, almost 60 percent of us have caught Covid at least once. That…

April 16, 2022 Time, time time, see what’s become of me While I looked around for my possibilities I was so hard to please - Paul Simon, A Hazy Shade of Winter In Tony Hillerman’s spellbinding mystery “ A Thief of Time, “ the thief is one who loots artifacts, pieces of the…

April 1, 2022 UPDATE / CORRECTION, April 2: It appear that at least part of the local case surge discussed below is from a batch of previously unreported tests administered in January. I’ve changed the text to reflect this info and added a link with details. …

March 1, 2022 I’m sure glad my wife and I had a safe room built into the basement of our house. We did it because we were worried about tornados and the dangers of climate change, but it’ll make a fine fallout shelter too. To someone born early in the Cold War…

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February 10, 2022 My neighbors love to walk. From my desk in front of the window, I see a parade of them: solos, couples, pairs of women, and lots of folks with dogs. Yesterday while taking my own stretch break, I spotted four people and their pups out enjoying the sun on a…

January 29, 2022 Last spring, we began hearing about Covid patients who were suddenly afflicted with tinnitus, a ringing or buzzing in one or both ears that sometimes persisted after other symptoms went away. Others who already had tinnitus found it had gotten worse. Like a lot of things about the pandemic, the…