As I write, the condo is filled with the scent of lilacs! Simone called me yesterday and said that her grandmere's lilac bush has produced a bumper-bloom of flowers this year and that she had prepared a bouquet for me. She asked if we could go over there, sit [...]
We are having a spate of great weather here in Seattle so we drove over to Eastern Washington to enjoy the great outdoors both yesterday and today. Nature Therapy has done me a world of good! The wildflowers are in full bloom. I am hoping the photos tell the [...]
It was a very wet Seattle day. Anxious to get out of the house, I went on a solitary walk. With permission from a neighbor, I headed over to my friend's garden. On my walk over to her house, the rain stopped. The air smelled of cherry blossom petals [...]
Sunday, April 12: It's been exactly thirty-one days since Rick and I have been sheltering at home. It's been forty-one days since my family in Italy have been in imposed quarantine. Italy is ten days ahead of Seattle in terms of everything happening with COVID-19. Feels like someone has [...]
Back in the day, when the idea of a viral pandemic taking over the fabric of our day to day lives was just a subject toyed with in post-apocalyptic novels, and well before the concept of "social distancing" became a phrase everyone would be familiar with, my mother was [...]
