Daily Connector | Why Are You Sad, O My Soul? | Jim Leonard
Near the end of March, there was a stretch of several days when I was feeling pretty blue, and I was acting that way. Although I do get blue now and then, it was unusual for me to stay in a funk for several days. “Why are downcast, O my…
Daily Connector | Silent screaming into the void | Jeff Lookabaugh
In these latter-day, Degenerate times, Cherry-blossoms everywhere! -Kobayashi Issa In early January, I lost my voice. At first I thought it would be temporary; I’d go through a few days of forced silence and then back to normal. A month in it was worse, not better, and then it disappeared…
Daily Connector | Oopsies! | David Emch
When I signed up to write for the Connector I was still in the honeymoon phase of this whole mess. I was working full-time, doing continuing education (and taking notes), facetiming friends, cleaning my house, and in general feeling like I was going to come through this thing well-rested and…
Daily Connector | A new routine | Larry Less
Ever since I moved from semi-retirement after a career as an Ohio labor economist to full-time “retirement” about 3 years ago, I have fallen into a ‘typical’ routine. That means getting up about 7:30 every morning, feeding the feral cats, breakfast, and the comics. Then I head out to ‘my’…