Reflections after two months of the pandemic....
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Week Something - A New Normal
One week turned into two and and then three. After three, they all started to blur together during the pandemic....
Week Three - A Challenging Time
Before the coronavirus, there was something I used to worry about. It was called screen time. Perhaps you remember it... Now I have thrown off the shackles of screen-time guilt. My television is on. My computer is open. My phone is unlocked, glittering. I want to be covered in screens. If I had a virtual reality headset nearby, I would strap it on. — Nellie Bowles, Coronavirus Ended the Screen-Time Debate. Screens Won. Two weeks ago, I wrote about how life was shifting for us all and how it...
Life is Changing For Us All and That’s Good
Living in western Canada, the coronavirus pandemic has been slowly creeping into our consciousness. The news reports out of China and South Korea started small in December and January, then Vancouver had its first case around January 27th1. While we watched the reports of active cases in the Lower Mainland grow slowly, the virus took hold in other parts of the world and has spread quickly ever since. In the Okanagan, the mindset of people seemed to be that the virus was a concern around Vancouve...
The Challenge of Solitude
One issue of Harpers magazine has sat on my night stand folded open to one article for five years. It took that long to start writing about it....
A Letter to Email
Email has been apart of my life, and most people's lives, since they got online. Here is my story with email....
David Jewell
A dear friend, gone too soon....
Frictionless Life in 2020
I feel sick. Not sick in the sense that I am in poor health, more of a feeling that I know things aren’t going the way I intended. I wake up feeling lost....
Turning 10
Another year, another year of growth....
A Christmas Morning of Gratitude
A collection of memories from Christmas....