My road is being repaved this week. The wizards from the highway department repaired the drains at either end of the short street and now it’s time to hide the drains and make everything look neat and tidy beneath a road of asphalt. But things have been delayed. Off and on rain has kept the…

I’ve been watching TV and listening to the radio during this whole CoronaVirus thing… I am inspired by all the good people who are doing good things to help others… Nurses, Doctors, Researchers, Scientists… there are thousands of them. And hooray to each and every one. But it occurred to me this morning as I…

…. This line of prose was uttered in one of the early epidsodes of the PBS TV series: Jamestown… I’m working on researching the bespoken word of the peoples of that era… as I am working on my own historical fiction…. I have come across such a knot of phrases… to be used or discarded…

Can’t golf, can’t shop, can’t travel, … I’m stuck between here and a coronavirus and not much choice as to what to do. And what I can do is potentially exhausting. At least it seems so to me. I do take long walks (at least a mile or two,) and I read and watch movies….