Worrying about those, including close friends and relatives, suffering from the pandemic virus itself, fretting about its economic fallout and spending up to eight hours a day in assorted Zoom meetings, I have lacked the focus to write a single-theme blog but wanted to share some concerns and invite your reactions. I am struck by …
Month: April 2020
Books to consider in flight from viral infection
During our sheltering from the COVID-19 virus, reading can provide a meaningful escape from the constant hand washing, planning our grocery orders and listening to the news. The following are some of my recent immersions in fiction and non-fiction. FICTION An American Marriage by Tayari Jones is an extraordinary novel about an upwardly mobile young …
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Grasping bits of optimism and glimmers of hope
Today is One Boston day, the seventh anniversary of the Boston Marathon bombing, when the Tsarnaev brothers set off two crude pressure cooker bombs that resulted in three deaths, wounded hundreds of others and sheared off limbs brutally and indiscriminately. The terrorist attack bloodied one of Boston's most iconic events and shattered our sense of …
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Trump fails 3 a.m. crisis call, before, during and after
Friday night, at precisely seven o'clock, people in our neighborhood opened their doors and, as did others across the world, clapped, cheered, used noisemakers, even honked the horns of their underutilized cars to cheer for first responders and providers of health care, some of whom live in our midst. The communal outpouring was deeply touching, …
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Marjorie Arons-Barron 