People who leave their families’ Thanksgiving dinners to line up outside Wal-Mart for Black Friday shopping are calling out other people for buying too much toilet paper. People who swarmed gun shops to buy firearms before President Scary Black Man and Mean Bossy Lady took them away are telling other people they are being ridiculous …
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The Morning After the Night Before
I woke up the same way I went to bed: thinking about COVID-19. I’m sure I’m not the only one. “It can’t happen here” has been on a loop in my head since I got up. Not because I think this is true, but because America has suffered from this mentality since the Mayflower took …
Toilet Paper, Prevention, and Inconvenience
I just got back from the grocery store. My family was almost out of toilet paper, and as COVID-19 events begin to move at a quicker pace, I decided I’d better go buy more before panic shopping really takes hold in northern Vermont. Turns out it was a good call. I managed to get some …
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PROcrastination
I’ve gone ‘round the bend. Procrastination-wise, anyway. After getting some excellent constructive criticism and advice from an editor, I’m on the verge of starting the sixth draft of my novel; quite possibly the final draft before I look for an agent. At least it quite possibly will be if I get off my ass and …
World Tour 2019
The first week of 2020 has taken about two-and-a-half years to go by. And the general sense I get is that we’re staring down the barrel of some downright ornery days, weeks, months, and maybe even years to come. I hate to be a pessimist, but the headlines cropping up over the past hour haven’t …
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