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On MEDIUM: "Mid-Pandemic, Everybody’s Doing It: Talking on the Phone is Cool Again"

                                                                                            Photo: Patricia Santos on Unsplash Click ... Mid-Pandemic, Everybody's Doing It:  Talking on the Phone is Cool Again Follow me on MEDIUM!

On MEDIUM: "Let's Show Some Appreciation: Celebrate SQUIRRELS on Their Own Special Day"

  Photo by  Yiran Yang  on  Unsplash Just when you thought the Biden-Harris inauguration ceremonies were enough of a high for one January 20th,  don’t put away the champagne glasses just ye t.  On January 21 -- every year -- it's  Squirrel Appreciation Day.                                     To read more, go to MEDIUM ,   "Let's Show Some Appreciation: Celebrate SQUIRRELS on Their Own Special Day"

PANDEMIC FATIGUE: What Day Is It?

  Photo: Bonni Brodnick I woke up this morning feeling paralyzed. Unable to move. Wondering, “ Why  does it feel like the begi n ning of the pandemic? In early-March 2020, when all the world stopped and we were forced to close down our lives and go into lockdown? When it was sort of adventurous to have my husband work from home every day. When there was that video that went viral showing how to wipe down groceries and rid them of Covid germs. Packages just delivered were either left outside or in the car for a few days until they were safe. You had to order toilet paper from Amazon. At first it was a treat to eat in front of the TV every night. I’d make dinner, set the trays, and my husband and I would sink into the latest recommended episode or movie on Netflix, Hulu, or prime video. (Remember in the beginning of the pandemic it was de rigueur to watch “Tiger King” — the Netflix special where [true story] a zoo owner spirals out of control in a murder-for-hire story from the...