Pandemic Diary Entry:86 April 26, 2021 Bridgerton is a series presently running on Netflix. It is set in an England that never was, ruled by a Black queen with Black royalty. The show is a great opportunity for a diverse cast but it is also fantasy, it is a history…

Part 4 — Pandemic Diary Entry # 85 “The line separating good and evil passes not through states, not between classes, nor between political parties either — but right through the human heart.” Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn April 19, 2021 Immigration across the world has an image problem. Many argue that there are already too…

Part 3 — Pandemic Diary Entry # 84 April 12, 2021 The situation on our southern border, like most everything in life, is far more complicated than the headline-grabbing screeds being shouted across the country. However, is it really a crisis? Border crossings have climbed high and then dropped off many times over…

Part 2 — Pandemic Diary Entry #83 April 5, 2021 The 2000 mile border between the US and Mexico is getting a considerable amount of attention. Central Americans, coming from Honduras, Guatemala and El Salvador are overwhelming the US Mexican border hoping for asylum. Among them are also immigrants, and refugees. While the…

Part 1 — Pandemic Diary Entry #82 March 29, 2021 I wrote a travel blog before COVID, I look forward to writing about adventures again. The point is…I travel. What travel teaches you is that we are all alike. We may look different, we may speak different languages, but the over-riding themes of…

Pandemic Diary #82 March 22, 2021 One thing has become very obvious over this last year is the systemic racism of America. It has always been there, but if you asked most white Americans they would have said they knew not of which you spoke. That has changed. I took…

Pandemic Diary #81 March 15, 2021 I am pretty fed up with the fact that America has always been run by a bunch of rich, old, white men. While that is slowly, and fortunately, changing, I feel the present group cares less about helping Americans than keeping themselves in office…

Pandemic Diary Entry #80 March 8, 2021 The Lancet put together a commission to study the “Public Policy and Health in the Trump Era.” Their report concludes that 200,000 fewer Americans would have died if the US had treated COVID with the same level of competence as our peer developed…

Pandemic Diary Entry #79 March 1, 2021 The fight for a $15 minimum wage is once again in the news. The first federally mandated hourly wage of 25 cents was set in 1938 by Franklin Delano Roosevelt, it has been raised 22 times by 12 different presidents. The last increase…