Editor’s Note: It is one of those days today, Cinco de Mayo. All the memories of parties past. We have (perhaps) seen the crest of the plague activity. We are eager to be back in motion. This is Marlow’s take on the change. -Vic The increase in traffic, commerce, shopping and people on the streets […]

“Under Siege” by Lisa Ocampo is worth 9 taco boxes. As local art galleries have been shuttered for seven plus weeks, one gallery owner decided to see if he could supercharge the slow internet sale of his artists’ wares. Once he and his artists started contributing to feeding the local hospital nurses tacos from our […]

​We still don’t know, but yesterday’s reported early testing results of promising therapeutics say we have hope. Sometime after we entered the plague’s third phase, I wondered why I felt so little anger during the second phase? What I’d seen, heard and read was unbearably horrid. Maybe my weariness of it was a kind of […]

Editor’s Note: Here is the latest. I don’t know how you are doing- the farm is lively, since the animals don’t seem to notice anything except quiet roadways. Marlow is doing yeoman’s work in documenting the strange global outbreak that has affected us all. Management claims the installments will be gathered up as a book […]

Ah, what the hell, let’s just sing it out loud. -Marlow . . . . . Eastern virus wind blowing (courtesy of 1939’s Wizard of Oz) Misty January morning, clouds in the sky Without warning, eastern virus wind blew by Casting its shadow, leaving its smells Creators wear military togs with jangling medals and tinkling […]

Author’s Note: Sorry for the scattered birdshot nature of what follows, but we Peach State citizens are as of today the country’s first open-uppers. Connecting the associated YGTBSM open-bowling-alley-n-tattoo-parlor dots has become harder given the likely length and careening backs-n-forths and ups-n-downs of our new reality plague health requirements. -Marlow Is there anything less sensational […]

Early this past Tuesday morning our next door neighbor hurriedly came over to say his elderly, nursing home bound mother was “actively dying” and that he wanted us to watch over and feed his cat Pittypat while he hightailed it to her bedside near the state’s official city of roses. He left within minutes. We […]

Editor’s Note: This is by far the most accommodating National Emergency I have had occasion to embrace. Lifestyle is essentially unchanged, and I blush to say that it was not until week eight of being ‘confined to quarters’ that this unusual crisis started to become mildly irritating. There is change everywhere I can see, but […]

As opposed to me, hard down with whatever awful malady it was, Marlow kept working. Here is what he thought in mid-March of this strange and improbable year. – Vic “With almost 100 million Chinese and likely many more tens or hundreds of millions to fall under effective home quarantine and without access to medical […]

If the plague were an animal, I’d choose to imagine it as a big gray bear. To the bear we are fit show ponies, trotting along, trotting along. Sadly I feel we’re actually now just concrete versions of these steeds. Not handsome. Not well groomed. Just medium gray tinted ones with no gloss. Trapped in […]