Tales

My First Quarantine Birthday Written shortly before my second quarantine birthday My first quarantine birthday was bad. Or rather, it was a bad week that happened to take place in lockdown and have a birthday in it.

Morning has spoken With a new dawn… 2020 was a year to be of transformation and Grace A year of accomplishment, a change of pace A year to discover the hopefulness that still stood A year to contribute to causes of good

How to celebrate our family Chirstmas Eve during Covid restricting group gatherings? Our family, actually our daughter came up with the idea of having a Stillwater Christmas Scavenger Hunt. She created all the clues, made all the arrangements and did all the set up without any of our relatives being involved.

Starting mid March when all the Covid closings and fears started Volunteering dropped dramatically because many people had underlying conditions... so I decided to step up my volunteering efforts at both the Zephyr Theater and the Red Cross. At the theater I helped with anything, bar tending, setting up and tearing down chairs at concerts, taking tickets, helping at the Halloween events, etc.

It is mid-March 2020. Snow has melted but nothing has begun to green. Days are dreary flat lit grey and the wind is bitter. The world is being systematically shut down by a virus that unites us as it drives us apart. I walk to work alone, one of a skeleton crew of ag hands kept on in the hopes that, come summer, there will still be people to feed.

My heart goes out to those suffering with Covid-19. This however provides a humorous take on family quarantine. A Quarantine Diddy By Johnny Malone Since Covid-19, They called quarantine, And me boss said, "You may work from home."