During this time of COVID, I feel like we are all pioneers now, trying to find our way in a new world. Our future is uncharted as we move through our lives blindly, trying to just feel our way around all the changes. With no government to really help us, we’re all floating around, trying […]
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When I was around thirteen I spent a summer living with my older sister. One of her part time jobs was to curate and run films for a movie night at the local library. One evening I was visiting her at the end of her shift when the janitor popped in to tidy up. They […]
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If you’re going to have a household accident that causes facial disfigurement or scarring, I would suggest that you should have that accident during a worldwide pandemic. Recently, while making Pupusas, hot oil splashed out of the pan and scattered all over my face, barely missing my eye. I now have large purple blotches and […]
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During the pandemic shut down I have hardly seen any pigeons. With all the restaurants and bars closed and everyone else sheltering in place there is no longer a free and easy food source where they can manically gather, gobbling up every crumb. I don’t see them fighting each other over every bean and grain […]
Read more »In 1859 an English naturalist and biologist named Charles Darwin published the book ‘On the Origin of The Species’. It was a book describing his new theory, the science of evolution, meaning that all species of life have descended over time from common ancestors. It introduced to the public the concept of “natural selection” known […]
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I knew the virus was coming for us. It started in China in 2019 and by February 2020 it was in Europe. Italy and Spain were completely in lockdown. Public health officials kept warning that San Francisco was two weeks behind Italy. In two weeks we would have more sick and dying than Italy if […]
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Since I’ve been in quarantine I have thought a lot about the gross and tragic story of Typhoid Mary. She was the first person identified as an asymptomatic carrier of Typhoid Fever in the early 1900’s, a disease that causes fever, weakness, abdominal pain, a rash and sometimes death. A vaccine was created in the […]
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