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Quarantine Diary #112 7/3/2020 The View From Here, Now
July 3, 2020
Posted by Mary Beth

I just checked the comments on my website. I get a few wacko ones most days that are in Greek or Russian, or are porno invites. I delete them. Part of the shtick when running a website outside the hosted sites.

And here, right here on a Friday evening, is this good comment from one of you, 

Quarantine Diary #108 6/30/2020 Woke Neighbors
June 30, 2020
Posted by Mary Beth

I was quietly sitting here, just writing, when I heard yelling. I looked up and there was Modern America Right Here Right Now, in front of my house.

Quarantine Diary #104 6/26/2020 Common Sense
June 26, 2020
Posted by Mary Beth

This very small story has been lurking in my mind for decades and I have been thinking about it again, just recently.

Quarantine Diary #101 6/23/2020 Today the Protest Came to Us
June 23, 2020
Posted by Mary Beth

I keep saying Len and I are not going to protests because of Covid.

But then one came to us.

Late yesterday afternoon we heard that Mike Pence and Betsy DeVos would be at a meeting this morning at Saratoga STEM school here in Waukesha. It's three blocks from our house. 

Quarantine Diary #99 6/20/2020 "A bonfire of small changes ..."
June 20, 2020
Posted by Mary Beth

This evening Trump is speaking to a political rally in a Tulsa venue that can hold 19,000 people. There will be no social distancing. The place is enclosed. Masks are optional. Boggles the mind.

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Yesterday morning I went to a local Stein’s garden mecca to see if they have marigolds on sale yet. They don’t even have marigolds NOT on sale!

But this happened.

Quarantine Diary #97 Le Bistro de Garage..
June 18, 2020
Posted by Mary Beth

People don’t need to care about “decorating and home design.” As long as one can live safely in their abode while getting done the things they need and want to get done, that’s civilization.

Quarantine Diary #93 6/14/2020 What happens when life goes on hold?
June 14, 2020
Posted by Mary Beth

Since I stopped writing every day the Quarantine Diary number no longer precisely matches the number of days since I (we) fell into this pandemical rabbit hole. I just calculated.

Quarantine Diary #72 6/11/2020 When Women Run
June 12, 2020
Posted by Mary Beth

I received a warm, easygoing, and professional phone call from Sara Rodriguez this week. She is running for Wisconsin State Assembly in the 13th district. Not my district, but I am ready and grateful to support people who will fight for issues I care about. Especially women. We need them and right now, they need us.

Quarantine Diary #71 6/8/2020 Pushing Out the Walls
June 8, 2020
Posted by Mary Beth

The protests! Amazing, aren’t they?

Quarantine Diary #70 6/4/2020 What's Your Frame?
June 4, 2020
Posted by Mary Beth

Started this yesterday and couldn’t figure out how to say it clearly. Let me try again…

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It seems as if nearly all social media has turned into a referendum and compendium of ways to think about Racism in America. This is good. This is necessary. Keep reading and keep sharing.

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