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A few months back on Twitter, some wag suggested that you can cause a great disturbance in the Force — and provide moments of serious fear and confusion — by taking almost any Wikipedia article about the world today and putting the descriptions of the key things in it in the past tense.
I investigated. And it’s true.
I would wager that uncertainty is the main cause of stress most of us are feeling during this coronavirus pandemic. We are uncertain how long we will be forced to live largely inside our own homes, conducting business and friendships on Zoom or Facetime, and seeing only family members face-to-face.
Within weeks the killing rampage of what was now thought to be a previously unknown virulent strain of influenza was in full bloom. Cities were under siege, their populations sickening and dying at an alarming rate.
My time has come. Unfortunately, it took a global pandemic to make it happen.
Social-distancing, sheltering-in-place, self-quarantine. We now have a name for what apparently has been my lifestyle. I like being at home. I really don’t enjoy traveling. Vacations? Like fresh fish, I’m good for three days.
As our days of confinement extend into weeks, I’ve been remembering when those of us of a certain age, (i.e., old,) were confined to home and bed for what seemed like an eternity as we recovered from measles, chicken pox, whooping cough and other childhood diseases.
It was about 20 years ago when Anthony Piel contacted The Lakeville Journal to see if we might be interested in running any opinion pieces from him. One of the most memorable conversations with him about his choice of topics occurred soon enough. It was after 9/11, and he felt strongly that the approach of the U.S.
Thinking about Canaan vs. Falls Village
100 years ago — April 1920
The members of the Bald Head Club are smacking their lips in anticipation of the banquet to be held in Hotel Stratfield at Bridgeport May 1st. W.W. Norton now has tickets for sale.
Enthusiastic about a proposal he heard at the World Economic Forum in Davos in January, President Trump said that the United States would join a global effort called the One Trillion Trees Initiative which aims to reduce global warming through reforestation.
Wisconsinites wearing face masks as they stood in the rain to vote might have illustrated the commitment of Americans to our democracy — except that there could have been safer ways to cast their ballots.
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