FOWC with Fandango — Dogma Unless you count drinking coffee and checking email as dogma, I don’t have dogma to which I feel attached. I do, however, have personal rituals. Stuff I do, stuff in which I believe or at least… Read More ›
Health
MAR-A-LAGO: MASQUE OF THE RED DEATH – BY TOM CURLEY
You might think by now that we would be emerging from the COVID-19 disaster. But we aren’t. In fact, more than half of our states are in worse shape now than they were a couple of months ago. Florida had… Read More ›
‘CAUSE EVERYTHING’S FINE RIGHT NOW – Marilyn Armstrong
We all know that everything isn’t fine right now but this song reminds me of times when everything was fine. I hope I’m still around when they are fine again. Music triggers memory for me as nothing else can, transporting… Read More ›
HOW COME THERE AREN’T ENOUGH TAKERS FOR TESTS? – Marilyn Armstrong
WHY DOESN’T EVERYONE GET TESTED? Have any of you tried to get tested and been told you can’t get tested if you don’t have a heavy cough and a high fever … and because you are over 70, you know… Read More ›
HOMEBODIES ON LOCKDOWN – BY ELLIN CURLEY
I never thought that being a homebody would uniquely qualify me to withstand a worldwide crisis, but it has. My “happy place” or “safe place” has always been at home. Growing up, my parents and I always tried to stay… Read More ›
HOW AND WHEN TO USE THE HEIMLICH MANEUVER – Marilyn Armstrong
I sneeze early and often. I sneeze loudly. Ferociously. For no reason. I don’t know my maximum number of sneezes in a row, but it’s more than fifteen. After that, I’m dizzy and I don’t know what’s going on. So… Read More ›
SO WHEN DO YOU THINK IT’S SAFE TO GO BACK OUT THERE? – Marilyn Armstrong
Fandango’s Provocative Question #65 A very relevant question this time. To a large degree, I’ve already answered this question in a couple of posts, as has Tom Curley. It’s certainly a question we have all asked each other. Meanwhile, our president… Read More ›
HUNKER IN THE BUNKER – RICH PASCHALL
A Viral Verse, by Rich Paschall It’s time to hunker in your Bunker. But don’t sequester next to Lester. He might have the virus. He’s been sitting close to Iris. And stay away from Bill, He thinks he’s got a… Read More ›
WE WERE NEVER A CURRIER AND IVES COUPLE – GARRY ARMSTRONG
The title comes from an episode of “The West Wing” which we are binging again in this early spring of discontent and dismay. The series is even better this time around, a great mental prescription from the Coronavirus while our… Read More ›
SNOW BY DAY & A DASH OF DUKE – Marilyn Armstrong
I got up and went into the kitchen. It was snowing. Just a little bit at that point. Just a dusting — a rather wet dusting. I figured it was going to stop any minute, but it kept on snowing… Read More ›
THE MASQUE OF THE RED MAR-A-LAGO – BY TOM CURLEY
I’ve been thinking about this blog for about a week now. It was going to be a very clever (well in my mind at least) parody of Edgar Alan Poe’s The Masque of the Red Death. It was going to… Read More ›
THIS ISN’T GOING TO GO ON FOREVER – Marilyn Armstrong
So Garry and I are listening (Audiobooks) to the biography of John Wayne written by Scott Eyman. We can’t turn on a baseball game, which we would normally be doing. There’s nowhere to go because it’s cold and rainy outside…. Read More ›
SOME INFORMATION ON CORONAVIRUS – Bette Stevens, Guest Blogger
This was originally a comment to my post from Bette Stevens, but it is the first substantial information I’ve gotten about symptoms and what we are supposed to be looking for. So I am passing the information to you and… Read More ›
NO ONE GIVES YOU SYMPATHY WHEN YOU GET A COLD – Marilyn Armstrong
I have a cold. It isn’t much of a cold. It’s the sniffles and a headache. Garry has the same cold. I am whiney. He is grumpy. And there’s no point in complaining because no one gives you any sympathy…. Read More ›
DOOMED AGAIN? – Marilyn Armstrong
We are doomed. If the climate doesn’t get us, some newly arisen germ will get us. My son is sure the oncoming Coronavirus is a reiteration of Stephen King’s “The Stand.” To be fair, I read “The Stand” such a… Read More ›
WHEN BONES DON’T KNIT – Marilyn Armstrong
Yesterday morning, I dropped the mouse for the computer in the bedroom. I reached down to pick it up and a pain shot through my chest, down my arm and I yelped. I had a lot of heart surgery more than… Read More ›
