A PLAGUE ON OUR HOUSE

This journal is already nineteen months old and over 380 pages long as I publish it here for the first time. So you won't see the day-by-day entries that characterize my other blogs. I'll continue to maintain it off line and update it here now and then. I'd been hoping, after hearing that the Minnesota Historical Society was interested in Minnesotans' expressions of their pandemic experiences, that MHS might appreciate mine. Alas, after two failed offers, they apparently wouldn't.  Nonetheless, these jottings, whether or not anyone at all ever reads them, have proven a welcome outlet for my widely-swinging emotions. They have chronicaled not just these tumultuous times, but a substantial slice of my life.                                                                                                               ~     /    ~    /    ~ A nurse shows the battle scars of fighting COVID-19 PHOTO : Nottingham Post March 24, 2020 Just over two weeks ago (March 8th, 202