Hanley Baird with plow, Karen and Ernie Faulkner watching

April 2020

What would our ancestors say?

May 6 was our 56th day of isolation and, while most people’s quarantine time is slightly less, people have had it with isolating. Gone are the #stayathome pleas of the […]

April 2020

Spring arrived

Spring has arrived. The flowers are blooming and the birds are chirping. The fishing boats are once again heading out each day and the huge row of lobster traps that […]

April 2020

Normalizing by doing what is normal

The last week flew by primarily because I got back to doing what I did the majority of the time before the pandemic started. Sure, we didn’t go to any […]

April 2020

From our couch, we can see a groundhog that lives in the field between our apartment and the ocean. We see him come out of the ground and walk around very close to his home a few times a week. Gee, who does that sound like?

March 2020

Will life go back to normal after the coronavirus pandemic?

When confronted with a challenging situation, my mother would almost […]

March 2020

We escaped

On Saturday, 21 March at 8:30 AM we escaped. It was a little chilly and kind of grey this morning. Drinking coffee and looking out at the ocean, we noted […]

March 2020

Flattening the Curve

While there were several contenders for week one’s most-used phrase – social distancing, self-isolating, stay the [insert your favorite term] home – flattening the curve is essentially what it is […]

March 2020

We've always been early adopters

So, why did we enter into self-imposed isolation on 12 March 2020 before it was suggested or required for people with no symptoms or exposure? We knew it was going […]

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What would our ancestors say?

Spring arrived

Normalizing by doing what is normal

Groundhog Days

Will life go back to normal after the coronavirus pandemic?

We escaped

Flattening the Curve

We've always been early adopters