Twenty-third Entryclick for detail Thursday, April 9th, 2020 Just a few weeks ago, the president suggested committing two billion dollars to combat Covid-19 hardships. The Democrats wanted four times as much. Now, the US government is debating adding trillions more...
Fifty-second Entry Thursday, May 7th, 2020 A chilly mid-spring morning. Happily, the heat is still on in my building. The seemingly endless range of subtly different shades of spring green—preserved by the cold days—will begin to diminish, even to the keenest eye....
Fifty-first Entryclick for close-up Wednesday, May 6th, 2020 The soundscape continues to expand. The beeping of a truck in reverse, the irregular thud of a hand cart with one funky wheel, human banter from the sidewalks, and the harsh whine and occasional crunch or...
Fiftieth Entry Tuesday, May 5th, 2020 Luckily nothing.Those two words were all I wrote on the first Tuesday in May 2020. The empty space below the two words offered an opportunity to look back on May 5th, in mid-October as I was preparing to send this entry. Those...
Forty-ninth Entryclick for detail Monday, May 4th, 2020 Last night was the third night in a row that the mobile morgue’s chiller was off. Continuing south on Seventh Avenue, I realized I hadn’t seen the usual clan of rats in a few nights. They were born early in the...
Forty-eighth Entry Sunday, May 3rd, 2020 Today I had an espresso, my first since the lockdown started. Served in a tiny paper cup less than 2″ tall, it probably contained the same amount of paper used in the meter-long receipt from yesterday’s hand sanitizer purchase....
