Author’s Note: Sorry for the scattered birdshot nature of what follows, but we Peach State citizens are as of today the country’s first open-uppers. Connecting the associated YGTBSM open-bowling-alley-n-tattoo-parlor dots has become harder given the likely length and careening backs-n-forths and ups-n-downs of our new reality plague health requirements. -Marlow Is there anything less sensational […]

Early this past Tuesday morning our next door neighbor hurriedly came over to say his elderly, nursing home bound mother was “actively dying” and that he wanted us to watch over and feed his cat Pittypat while he hightailed it to her bedside near the state’s official city of roses. He left within minutes. We […]

Editor’s Note: This is by far the most accommodating National Emergency I have had occasion to embrace. Lifestyle is essentially unchanged, and I blush to say that it was not until week eight of being ‘confined to quarters’ that this unusual crisis started to become mildly irritating. There is change everywhere I can see, but […]

As opposed to me, hard down with whatever awful malady it was, Marlow kept working. Here is what he thought in mid-March of this strange and improbable year. – Vic “With almost 100 million Chinese and likely many more tens or hundreds of millions to fall under effective home quarantine and without access to medical […]

If the plague were an animal, I’d choose to imagine it as a big gray bear. To the bear we are fit show ponies, trotting along, trotting along. Sadly I feel we’re actually now just concrete versions of these steeds. Not handsome. Not well groomed. Just medium gray tinted ones with no gloss. Trapped in […]

The fumes of backyard, oak wood, fire pit smoke and the smell of wet clothes from a brief rain shower triggered a recent vision that we are not like the Egyptians of Exodus as they suffered the 10 plagues. This plague has no flail of God with the world His threshing-floor. No wheat, no chaff, […]