I read Emily St. John Mandel’s novel “Station Eleven” a year or so ago and thought at the time that it was a wonderful read, but the story line of a devastating pandemic seemed a bit of a stretch. The events of recent weeks unceremoniously dissolved that stretch.

In times like this I’m sure glad God made beer and wine!

He leaves us his music and that’s more than pretty good.

Bill Withers left this world yesterday, but he leaves us with this beautiful song for our troubled times

The suggestion that now is not the time to point fingers, that we should wait until this crisis is over and then make a post mortem is terrible advice. Trump won’t suspend his daily effort to shape the narrative and shift responsibility for the colossal unpreparedness of his administration for this deadly virus so it imperative for us to speak up now, not wait until the crisis is past.

We should have learned that lesson in the aftermath of the release of the Mueller report. Before it became public property, Attorney General William Barr in a press conference dishonestly spun the report’s findings to exonerate Trump. Let’s not repeat the same mistake.