Category: Covid-19

Stories of the pandemic

Chiweenie

By Kieran on April 30, 2020 • ( 12 Comments )

Ignorance can be bliss.

I wish I had never learned the “breed” name for my little pandemic puppy.

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Sealed Up Tight

By Kieran on April 28, 2020 • ( 8 Comments )

My father’s Senior Living Community in Arizona is sealed like a zip-lock doggie bag.

No family in or out. The “inmates” can walk the courtyard but not outside the building.

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Killer Carol — Updated with Pics

By Kieran on April 21, 2020 • ( 32 Comments )

I’ve had dogs that liked me, but they always “loved” other people. This past few weeks I found a dog that actually loves me. If I’m lucky, for the next 15 years, I won’t be able to take a shit by myself.

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Fake ID for TP

By Kieran on April 14, 2020 • ( 3 Comments )

For the first time in 35 years together, the Bear and I are doing a little bit of hoarding.

I know what you are thinking, and fuck you. It’s just a little bit of hoarding, and it’s not for us.

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A Fifth of Hope

By Kieran on April 9, 2020 • ( 12 Comments )

Just when I think Americans and their leaders are so fucked-up, the country hardly deserves to survive, we do something as a group I can finally salute.

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Spousal Distancing

By Kieran on April 7, 2020 • ( 16 Comments )

For not the first time in a decade, the man cave has come in handy.

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REFUGE

By Kieran on April 4, 2020 • ( 2 Comments )

Originally posted on Stephen Metcalfe:
? In my house, my place of escape, refuge, privacy, contemplation and uninterrupted reading is on the toilet. When the going gets tough, the tough get going and I go to the bathroom. Excuse me, I’ll say! I have to go sit for…

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Laughing during the Pandemic

By Kieran on March 31, 2020 • ( 14 Comments )

I’m not one of these nuts that wants to spread the virus or let grandparents die to “save” the economy. All these deaths from Covid-19 are preventable, and we should do everything we can to save each person.

But now is a good time for a little perspective.

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Zoom Choc-a-laca

By Kieran on March 26, 2020 • ( 11 Comments )

With this pandemic, it’s morning zoom and night.

By that I mean I’m lucky enough to be on non-stop conference calls with Zoom — the best of the fucked-up softwares that make every virtual meeting feel like it’s taking place in a busy bus terminal.

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The fucked-up tennis team — STOP

By Kieran on March 24, 2020 • ( 9 Comments )

One of the things I like about tennis is the built in “physical distancing.” Even in doubles there’s 4 people in 2808 square feet.

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On Hope

By Kieran on March 14, 2020 • ( 2 Comments )

Originally posted on Stephen Metcalfe:
I wrote this about fifteen years ago but the idea that we be there for one another, that we provide hope, seems even more timely now. * As I’ve gotten older I’ve had a harder and harder time with the concept of hope. …