Coronavirus and Living Well

Living Well through the Coronavirus Chaos

  1. Pick up any book featuring Maira Kalman's art. Read it - word for word. picture by picture.
  2. Call your uninfected friends, only 4 or 5, and gather for a walk. Bring a picnic lunch.
  3. Read Little Women. Again or first.
  4. Find, buy, borrow To Our Children's Children by Bob Greene and D.G. Fulford. Find your son, your daughter, a grown grandchild, turn the tables and ask them the questions. If no children or grandchildren, okay, find your parents. Record their answers and give the recording to the recordee on their birthday.
  5. Read one or four of the Pam Fox mystery series Art of Murder, beginning with Drawing Fire.
  6. Gather the photos of something important to you. Open up Mimeo (or its ilk) and create a book for yourself, or your family, or your friends. Share.
  7. Clean out the most neglected closet in your house.
  8. Tend your garden. Grow some flowers. Set out a tomato plant. Sit on a bench.
  9. Oh yes. Read TALLAK! immigrant over again. You don't have it? Haven't read it? WELL. See below.
The Great Depression 1929 - 1940

My pending manuscript, the story of three generations of women, is taking form.The title remains unknown, but here's a taste of the story to come. The story of heritage, helping, the importance of family in sharing the burden.  This story embraces ten years of a lifetime. What will our story be in the years following […]
Peace . . . . and Power

It is not peaceful, it's powerful. 

I’m feeling it. Are you?

I’m feeling the walls coming down inside of me. The walls crumbling a little more with each book I read of black lives, by each black face I see on a video sharing his or her thoughts and pain. 
Coronavirus - Spanish Flu

I am immersed in a new story celebrating three women of three successive generations. Two of these characters lived through the pandemic of their time, the Spanish Flu. Their flu was coupled with the devastating World War, with death from bullets and disease convulsing the country. Our COVID-19 has now coupled with the worldwide protests […]
Spring? Summer? Safe? Sound?

Welcome! You can barely tell that you have morphed from newsletter to blog . . . it's so coordinated! For this, I thank Mike Erickson, my WordPress Website guru, who put the basics together, leaving only the content for me to agonize over. Looks good, yes?  And just to continue the theme —another glance at Spring […]
Coronavirus and Living Well

Living Well through the Coronavirus Chaos
The No Blog Restyling

There are changes coming. Don't be scared! TALLAK! will no longer be aloneWhen?Well, soonPay Close Attention! Hold on with the links ---not perfected yet. FacebookTwitterGoogle-plus
Walls

Berlin Wall    Great American Wall
Musing about our land

I drove across our country in October. From Blairsville, Georgia to my home in Tucson, Arizona. From the Blue Ridge Mountains to the Rockies, across wet land and dry land. Across our wide open spaces. There's land left, folks. There are towns crying out for entrepreneurs, people to grow vegetables, corral sheep, help raise the […]

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