The other day a lady posted a photo of a soldier with a donkey on his back on Nextdoor in reply to a fairly contentious post. Side note: Nextdoor has become my guilty pleasure. Sure, sometimes there are informative posts, but mostly it’s a shit show extraordinaire that amuses meContinue Reading
The weekend before last, I was texting with my friend Sheila about how heartbroken we were about the nursing homes in our areas that had come down with coronavirus cases. In many cases they were already on lockdown and unable to see their loved ones. Coronavirus made it worse. FamilyContinue Reading
I’ve been getting irritated with a lot of my friends who are convinced this novel coronavirus is overblown and the media is inciting unnecessary panic. “They’re not talking about how many people recover. They’re only talking about the deaths, and in the scheme of things not many people die. I’mContinue Reading
Another way I’ve been humbled in the wake of the tornadoes that tore through Nashville was to learn I believed in a myth about weather warning sirens. Namely, I thought they were supposed to alert us to tornadoes, which they are, but I thought that meant even when we’re insideContinue Reading
The first check-in came by text from my friend Sheila at 5:28 am. The first Facebook check-in came by way of a request from two Middle Tennessee friends, Teresa and Donna, using the Facebook disaster feature to ask if I was safe. Which was funny, because that’s why I’d goneContinue Reading