Pandemic: Dispatches and Essentials Archive

SURVIVING THE PANDEMIC: How to look your best on Facetime - WE COULD BE HEROES: BRETT CROZIER… AND HUGH THOMPSON, JR. by Charles P. Pierce, Esquire columnist. I encourage you to read him daily… and subscribe. If there is a “real

SURVIVING THE PANDEMIC: Ignore the President. Act like a Governor. Take Charge. - CAPTION: New York firemen applaud hospital workers at shift change. "So let us not talk falsely now The hour is getting late" - Dylan, “All Along the Watchtower” Before we start...watch this: Heart pounding? Tears?

SURVIVING THE PANDEMIC: Living in Your Living Room (Good news, bad news) - GOOD NEWS: DON’T NEED YOUR STIMULUS MONEY? WANT TO HELP? PLEASE BOOKMARK THIS GiveDrectly.org identifies households that desperately need money. Why? “We believe people living in poverty deserve the dignity to

SURVIVING THE PANDEMIC: Louise Bernikow: “In September, I will be 80 years old.” It means: In September, I will be here, alive.” - QUOTE OF THE DAY: MATTHEW 25:31-46 “Then the King will say to those on his right, ‘Come, you who are blessed by my Father, inherit the kingdom prepared for you from

SURVIVING THE PANDEMIC: Old: Acts 20:35 “It is more blessed to give than to receive.” Now: “It’s vastly more blessed to have.” - It’s Sunday. Let’s start with some glorious music: “QUARANTIFICAT,” performed by the Mozarteumorchester Salzburg, from the “Magnificat,” by Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach (1714-1788) View from My Window was launched on

SURVIVING THE PANDEMIC: Only those who go too far know how far they can go, plus: writing condolence notes - CAPTION: The statue of Abraham Lincoln in front of the New York Historical Society When the United States was the most richest and most powerful nation, the middle was safe.

SURVIVING THE PANDEMIC: Plague fatigue. Impatience. “Tone.” And then… a thumbs-up. - My parents were screamers, so it’s no surprise I do everything I can to avoid situations where someone is yelling. And I try never to be the one who’s raised

SURVIVING THE PANDEMIC: Possibly the most important video of your life - "Patient Zero," in general usage, refers to the first case of a catastrophic trend. I give it a more personal meaning: the first person in my circle to be afflicted. Because,

SURVIVING THE PANDEMIC: President Jim Jones suggests you drink the Kool-Aid - Lucky you if you haven’t seen this: How did it happen? At yesterday’s White House press conference, William Bryan, the secretary for science and technology at the Department of Homeland Security, spoke

SURVIVING THE PANDEMIC: Strutting toward the apocalypse - Jackie Fletcher --- the woman in the photo --- felt strongly about the lockdown, so she went to an open-it-up protest at the State Capitol in Springfield, Illinois on Friday.

SURVIVING THE PANDEMIC: Subject to change — welcome to the next incarnation of Head Butler - The image above is by Miles Hyman, a consistently excellent artist who lives in Paris. Decades ago, he created the Head Butler logo. ---- Friends --- On March 1, Butler made a pivot

SURVIVING THE PANDEMIC: The problem is men - CAPTION: Nancy Pelosi, daughter of Big Tommy D’Alessandro, Jr., a Maryland Congressman and Mayor of Baltimore from 1947 to 1959, at John F. Kennedy’s inaugural ball. She was 20. Yesterday

SURVIVING THE PANDEMIC: Thich Nhat Hahn on suffering: Rest your hand on his/her back - As a novelist, I’m a journalist. I read every relevant book about my subject, make documents with each book’s best stories and ideas, create a timeline, make a briefing book.

SURVIVING THE PANDEMIC: Two series you can actually stand to watch - I’ve turned the TV on so rarely in the last five years that the Young Adult has to do it for me. I’m often asked, “Didn’t you love X [some universally

SURVIVING THE PANDEMIC: What if Trump gave a Grand Reopening party — and nobody came? - CAPTION:Thousands of vehicles lined up before dawn Thursday to seek aid from the San Antonio Food Bank. The agency fed about 10,000 households --- the largest single-day distribution in

SURVIVING THE PANDEMIC: When he says it’s not about the money… it’s about the money - I try not to turn the beginning of these pandemic Butlers into a Facebook diary, but I have to say that yesterday was the best in a while. Good call

SURVIVING THE PANDEMIC: Your money or your life? Or: Do you feel lucky? - CAPTION: Joshua Bickel, a photojournalist for the Columbus Dispatch, covered a protest outside Ohio governor Mike DeWine’s daily press briefing. A hundred protesters had gathered. They pressed up against the