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Week Three: Tighten Up!
It’s not time to loosen up on those distancing restrictions for the foreseeable. You can do it, now! Now do it right! Watch out baby. Don’t you get toooo tight! Here’s a much better sound recording, and, well, some different steps. Try both! Everybody. Tighten up. Stay home. Sock it to ’em.
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Day Twelve: Weekend
Photo by Curtis MacNewton on Unsplash “I can’t wait for the weekend.” That’s become the running joke at our house as we pad around in our socks looking for the next thing to do, or the next thing that we feel like doing since there are always tasks waiting around the house and yard…
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Day Eleven: Looking
When things are looking down, look up. It’s true. The physical act of moving the gaze upward lifts the spirit. While brain research and psychological studies offer support for this claim, just take a minute to prove or dispel it yourself with some research of your own. Chin up, forehead back, and I’m staring at…
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Day Ten: Listening
What are you listening to? I’m not talking about what you can hear at the moment, though if I pause the light tapping of my fingers on the keyboard for a moment, I can hear a number of things: a far-off mower, Frank opening the back door, a plane’s distant rumble, the furnace–which was not…
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Day Nine: Wings #2
Cooped up. But here’s what I’m getting ready to read next. I’ve read The Hobbit before, and read it aloud to my children before, but it’s been quite some time. I’ve just finished reading a memoir, will finish up friend and DMQ Reviews’ editor Annie Kim’s remarkable new book of poetry, Eros Unbroken, and then,…
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Day Eight: “Be Grateful. Be Generous in Spirit.”
In case you missed this amazing interview with former Presidential candidate, Amy Klobuchar, she’s speaking with Rachel Maddow about her husband John who was hospitalized yesterday, Monday, with the virus after testing positive that morning. He had a fever for 10 days, and the test results took 5 more! What in the world.…
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Day Seven: Are We Done. Yet?
It really is that kind of day. Again. Already. The trick will be how to keep each day from feeling like this, like Groundhog Day, another replay of the same routine. Wake up. Eat. Email. Projects. Exercise. Eat. Plan dinner. So we can later eat. Take a walk. Read. Call someone on the phone.…
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Day Six, Masks: DIY are Better than Nothing
Well, maybe not this particular model. I’ve been wanting to post something on this topic since my last shopping trip and have been gathering some reputable resources to share. This is pretty much an information dump, and hopefully for any of the handful of people who might read it, old news? If not, I’ll try…
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Day Five: Wings
A weird thing about the whole chicken I bought yesterday. When Frank took it out of the butcher paper, it had no wings. A wingless, pink body. I remember when I stood in front of the glass cases at Lunardi’s yesterday morning, happy to see the dozen or so lined up on the ice, that…
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Day Four: I Go to the Store
Sorry, but I need to say this first: DON’T FLUSH DISINFECTING WIPES!!! If you think staying home is hard, just try to imagine staying home and having the public sewage system backed-up. This, a warning from the State Water Resources Control Board–which I’d say goes for everywhere… Anyway, I did hit the “time to go…
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