I can’t seem to shake this feeling — this sense that we’re living the first 10 minutes of a disaster movie.
Just for starters, it was the gloomiest birthday weather in memory — the memory being suspect, given the milestone nature of the event.
The disappearance over the past decade of daily and weekly newspapers has turned many areas of the United States into news deserts.
According to mental health professionals, a useful coping mechanism in these difficult times is to look for the positives and to write them down.
Modena, Italy. Saturday morning and a strange quiet pervades this normally bustling Northern Italian city of 80,000.
One day when I was 18, I walked into Alley’s Store and John Alley motioned me over to the counter and asked me, in a low voice, if I would shoot him...
Last week I dashed to Delaware to help my 89-year-old father, who lives alone, get stocked up — and mentally prepared to stay put.
My daughter Pickle and I are walking the dog yet again, traveling the dirt road loop that stretches around our neighborhood.
My mantra has been no talking about Covid-19 with our clients. So the staff meetings were brimming with only that.
I never peeked. I just imagined there were about a dozen. Small but mighty. Sealed and frozen.
Even before the American Revolution was over, people were arguing about when it started.

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