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Tag: #COVID

  • Grocery Shopping

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    Grocery Shopping

    We try to keep it down to once every two weeks, although our son has gone out in the interlude to pick up some of the short-lived items, like fruits and vegetables. Our first grocery shopping experience during the quarantine was with Loblaws when we ordered on-line for pickup. At that time the pickup date…

  • Shelter in Place

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    Shelter in Place

    Our outings these days are purposeful and limited to just a few things: picking up the mail from our community mail box, conveniently located next door to our house, taking out the garbage once a week and grocery shopping every other week. Depending on the weather, we might take the dog for a walk and…

  • Birds

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    There have been several reports that the pandemic has benefited the environment, notably air quality. While there remains background “city noise”, it seems to be at a reduced volume. I’m not sure that I can say there are more birds than in previous years, but I do hear Robins, which in recent years have become…

  • The Novel Interview

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    The Novel Interview

    Social distancing, as demanded by the novel coronavirus, has changed TV interviews from a largely in-person in-studio event to one mediated through video-conferencing technology with an interviewee often at home. As this practice developed from a novelty to the norm the nuances became more apparent: the attire of the interviewee was often more casual, the…

  • Obsessions

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    Obsessions

    Both my grandmothers were preoccupied with having a clean home. This grip might have been cultural; it might have been that both were survivors of the 1918 pandemic; it might have been some combination of many things. Cleanliness has recently reestablished its importance as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic, most publicly in the form…