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Covid Diary #703 What are you seeing where you are?
February 15, 2022
Posted by Mary Beth

2/15/2021

Quarantine Diary #697 90,000,000
February 9, 2022
Posted by Mary Beth

Flags representing Covid victims. 

2/9/2022

This is from the Osterholm Update: Covid-19 (Listen here)

Quarantine Diary #688 Thinking
January 31, 2022
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The photo is a dog watching and thinking. Kind of like me. 

1/31/2022

When someone says “We’re Family” I go on full alert like a prairie dog hearing a whuff of wings overhead.

Quarantine Diary #682 Did YOU ever save something from social media?
January 25, 2022
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1/25/2025 

 I have a lot of pictures; most are photographs Len or I took, but I also have an incredibly random collection of internet stuff saved over many years.

I’m feeling random today, so I’m sharing a few of them. There will be no rhyme or reason to this. Some days one just deals with what comes along.

Quarantine Diary #681 "If this were easy ... "
January 23, 2022
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1/23/2022 

Thanks to you who responded to yesterday's post with affirming comments. It feels awkward and sad to cancel activities we want to do with people we like and love. As our friend David so helpfully reminded, “Just because we’re paranoid doesn’t mean it isn’t out to get us.”

Quarantine Diary #680 Too Close Covid
January 22, 2022
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1/22/2022

Judy suggests a podcast that her daughter-in-law, an infectious disease physician, listens to and recommends. It’s The Osterholm Update: COVID 19. Osterholm is an epidemiologist and Director of the Center for Infectious Disease Research and Policy at the University of Minnesota. He’s on President Biden's COVID-19 Advisory Board.

Quarantine Diary #674 - MLK Day
January 17, 2022
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1/17/2022

Quarantine Dairy #669 A Rerun
January 12, 2022
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1/12/2022

I have a lot of projects to get through today. I wrote this in 2006 when I worked at Target for six months. I still like it.

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This week I saw an inspiring sight.  I saw a little kid completely lost in his imagination. 

Quarantine Diary #668 Making an Effort
January 11, 2022
Posted by Mary Beth

We hiked on Sunday.

1/11/2022

How was your weekend?

Have you noticed that with this omicron iteration of covid isolation – if one is not an employee - it’s tricky to tell what is a weekend and what is not? I think about what my kids might be doing and maybe we call them and that is the main way weekends are different from weeks. By what other people are doing.

Quarantine Diary #664 Whine, whine, whine.
January 7, 2022
Posted by Mary Beth

1/7/2021

Lincoln gave a speech in January of 1838 to Americans alarmed by mob actions.