Archive for: March 2020

Sending Love to London

Written on March 27, 2020 in Europe

March 27, 2020 We awoke to the news that Boris Johnson, Britain’s Prime Minister, has the Coronavirus. Here in the US the news is dreadful. Today we have more than 93,000 cases, 1384 deaths and 2424 people have officially recovered. Timmy and I are doing well, we are still isolating ourselves and spend most of...

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Portland’s About to Become Just a Little Bit Cooler

Written on March 24, 2020 in USA

March 24,2020 My amazing nephew Jesse, and his beautiful wife Gina, have been top of my mind since the Coronavirus surfaced in the news. They are expecting their first child in two weeks. With so much unpredictability  surrounding capacity in hospitals; there’s uncertainty and a great level of anxiety surrounding this happy event. We visited...

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Chickens Named Bob and the Sarasota County Fair

Written on March 23, 2020 in USA

March 23, 2020. The Coronavirus continues to spread here in Florida and Governor  Desantis refuses to be the leader that this state desperately needs. He is still holding off on a stay home order. Massachusetts, Ohio, Louisiana, and Delaware are the latest states to announce a stay home order, joining Jersey, California, New York, Illinois...

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Let’s Renovate…Part II

Written on March 22, 2020 in USA

March 22, 2020. News surrounding the Coronavirus becomes more alarming by the minute. Tim and I continue to remain isolated in our tiny condo. I’m walking twice a day and practicing Yoga every morning. Timmy and I are out here on the patio getting our daily dose of Vitamin D. Tim’s trying to identify my...

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Grateful

Written on March 21, 2020 in USA

March, 21,2020. I’m grateful. For these orange butterflies that hang out here on my patio. Grateful for the person who planted the vines that attract them. Here’s a pic of the flower on the vine. Apparently they’ve all become camera shy at the very moment I want to share them with you. Approximately 90% of...

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A Little Normalcy

Written on March 19, 2020 in USA

March 19, 2020. My mom would have been 97 today. She died four weeks after her 59th birthday. I miss her. I’ve missed her for 38 years. For months after she died I’d wait for her phone call at 4:20 every day. She’d  call me on her way out of her office, just to check...

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Down to the Studs…Let’s Renovate

Written on March 18, 2020 in USA

March 18, 2020. I walked for 40 minutes this morning, I’m struck by the total disconnect between what is happening here in beautiful Lake Tippecanoe and what’s on television and social media. It’s 82 degrees, bright sun, birds singing, and except for the absence of folks on the roads…seeming normalcy. I’m sad that the Governor...

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Paddy’s Day ☘️

Written on March 17, 2020 in USA

March 17,2020. So yes, that’s Paddy’s day with a “d” and the Shamrock has three leaves, unlike a four leaf clover. How do I  know this? I’m Irish. My dad told us: “You will always know an Irishman…he’ll never say St. Patty’s day”. I enjoyed my walk today and I’m sad that my neighbors are...

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I Choose the Light

Written on March 16, 2020 in USA

March 16,2020. We’ve been here in Sarasota since the end of December, enjoying the little condo that we purchased last winter. As I write this, I’m on my patio with the mocking birds and butterflies, trying to distract myself from the evolving Coronavirus crisis. I suspect I will be posting here  often in the hopes...

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