It's taken me about twenty-five years to get used to the fact that people no longer use their telephones to talk. We use them to communicate; to stay in touch, mostly by email and increasingly by text messaging. Under normal circumstances, we are able to self-correct for any misunderstandings or crossed wires by simple, ordinary face-to-face ( Read more... )

Gosh. Has it been two weeks? Yes, I think so. Two weeks since I last reported on various efforts around the creating or re-creating of community around the COVID-19 pandemic ( Read more... )