Category Archives: pandemic
Getting my shots
I deliberately sickened myself multiple times in 2023 and 2024, and I’m glad that I did. I opted to take fourth and fifth booster doses of COVID-19 vaccine. I also took two doses of the Shingrix vaccine against shingles, a … Continue reading
COVID 2: Electric Boogaloo
I have long subscribed to my “Law of Conservation of Happiness” where good news is balanced by bad news to keep things on an even keel. We had a great vacation in early June 2024 to southwestern Oregon and the … Continue reading
COVID at Meador Manor
November 18, 2022; updated November 27, 2022 It took me two years and eight months to finally contract COVID-19. But I did finally succumb, so I will share my story and the lessons I take from it. Be Careful, Man … Continue reading
Fall Break was an Autumn Brake
November 6, 2021 | Photo Album Two weeks before Fall Break 2021, Wendy and I received our third doses of the Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine. That meant our protection against infection would be strengthened for a much-needed brief escape from Bartlesville … Continue reading
It tasks me, it heaps me, an inscrutable malice sinews it
August 21, 2021 We have begun another school year battered and bruised but not broken by COVID-19. Vaccines now shield most of my colleagues and loved ones from hospitalization and death, even as the Delta variant, pandemic fatigue, and pathological … Continue reading
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