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Saturday Snap – Last Pre-Quarantine Photo (and My Personal Covid Timeline/Photo Essay)

There’s a challenge on social media to post the last picture on your camera roll before you entered quarantine. I thought I’d take that challenge but go a step further to post a few photos and significant dates from my own personal COVID timeline… My Personal COVID Timeline Late November – early December 2019 COVID […]

¶ Posted 04 April 2020 § Library § List § MemoryLane § News § Photo § SaturdaySnap § Travel ‡ Comments (0) ° Also tagged: economics, education, health, history, parents

Throwback Thursday – #tbt – Registered Nurses Are Now Required Nurses (April 2013)

During the current pandemic, RN doesn’t just stand for “Registered Nurse” – it stand for *Required* Nurse and our frontline healthcare workers are going above and beyond in the battle against COVID-19 in hospitals, testing sites and other locations around the world. I’m so proud to be married to a nurse who fills this vital […]

¶ Posted 02 April 2020 § Family § Jobs § News § Photo § Shea § ThrowbackThursday ‡ Comments (0) ° Also tagged: education, health, science

A Letter From Italy, A Letter From Our Future…

(Stolen from a FB friend…) This was published in The Guardian – UK -, but also in France, Germany ….. The acclaimed Italian novelist Francesca Melandri, who has been under lockdown in Rome for almost three weeks due to the Covid-19 outbreak, has written a letter to fellow Europeans and all of us “from your […]

¶ Posted 01 April 2020 § Meme § News § Wisdom ‡ Comments (0) ° Also tagged: economics, education, health, history

Music Monday – “All by myself/Don’t want to be, all by myself anymore/All by myself/Don’t want to live, all by myself anymore”

“All By Myself” – Eric Carmen

¶ Posted 30 March 2020 § MusicMonday § Video ‡ Comments (0) ° Also tagged: music

The First Celebrity COVID Death?

I would never have guessed that Joe Diffie would be the first celebrity COVID death (well, if a tier B 1990’s country singer counts as a celebrity but I liked quite a few of his songs back in the day so why not?) And if this helps even one Red Stater stay home, his death […]

¶ Posted 29 March 2020 § MemoryLane § News § PopCulture § Shea § Video ‡ Comments (0) ° Also tagged: health, music

Friday Fun Link – Some Useful COVID-19 Resources & Trackers

These are ordered roughly in the order that I find them useful but I’d encourage anyone reading this to open them all and find which ones you prefer for yourself. Also, feel free to post a comment if there are sites I haven’t listed that you prefer. COVID-19 Canada Tracker – designed by a […]

¶ Posted 27 March 2020 § Canada § FridayFunLink § Infographic § Internet § List § News § Technology § Wisdom ‡ Comments (0) ° Also tagged: economics, education, health, unitedstates

Throwback Thursday – #tbt – Happier Times at the Hospital (May 2007)

It’s amazing how the hospital can be both the location for some of the happiest moments of people’s lives (births of children, news about diseases being beaten and bones being healed) and some of the worst (a loved one doesn’t make it after an accident, grandma’s last breaths on the palliative care ward, the diagnosis […]

¶ Posted 26 March 2020 § Family § Jobs § MemoryLane § Pace § Shea § ThrowbackThursday § Wisdom ‡ Comments (0) ° Also tagged: education, health, science

In The Meantime…

…picking away at a very important COVID post (well, very long anyhow!) but in the meantime, here’s a pic of how we showed we love nurses during this pandemic…