I’m getting fingerprinted today! And photographed! And background-checked! I’m getting a job with the US Census Bureau! I got conditionally hired just as COVID was ramping up in late March, just before isolating become a widely used gerund and a widely enforced official order. Even as I got that initial call, and was answering the…
So if you’ve been sitting around your house feeling distant, disparate, dissociated, detached — helpless about all the hideousness and hate and chaos that seems to be flying around the world today, I just thought of something: Peace. A gesture. Been hanging out with my tribe at the Body Art Barn, which is still off limits,…
Corinne Courtney puts her heart and soul into Nailed It, the hardware store she established in our little town of Washingtonville, N.Y., in 2015. I know this because when I interviewed her for a story when I worked at the Times Herald Record last year, her dedication was palpable. She thinks hard about everything aspect…
I love this sign.Love, too, that it’s anonymous. We’re setting up a forum so we can all share. So be on the lookout. His latest work is A Life Well-Lived, a selection of photos and stories of people across Nebraska highlighting their stories from the past 70 years. These are photographs and stories of…
People talk about the weather. But today nature gave us some weather we really should talk about. Here in the Hudson Valley, we woke up to snow on the ground (and the patio umbrellas and poor daffodils, which have a hard time keeping their heads up as it is). It’s flippin’ mid-May, OK?? Then, as I’m…
Really? Has it come to this? Hand sanitizer under lock and key? I saw on my way out of the big medical facility where my doctor works. The telltale pump, sticking out of some sort casing. I approached slowly, fearing an alarm might go off if I got too close. Nothing happened. Except I had…
Sure, they laughed when it showed up on “The Big Bang Theory,” in 2012. But who’s laughing now? In “The Cruciferous Vegetable” episode, Sheldon decided he needs to extend his lifespan, and the best way to stay healthy was to stay at home, away from the risks of everyday life and any stray viruses, etc.…
Should I or shouldn’t I? I couldn’t/can’t stand looking at myself in the mirror anymore. My hair needs not just to be cut, but it’s turned all manner of trashy orange shades, as it is wont to do. All I can think of is that photo I saw at Belle’s grooming salon, an image of a…
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