“On the sixth day, God created writers…”
~ Dan Harmon
When covid hit the world in 2020 I was still writing every morning for four hours and posting on #5amwritersclub on Twitter while amassing quantities of survival acquisitions including toilet paper, Clorox wipes, NS 95 masks, shoe booties, plastic gloves, food, litter for my two cats, and toys for the dogs.
I locked my door and began two years of solitary confinement with increasing heart hurt after each successive hundred thousand dead in the USA.
Mostly I walked in the neighborhood and the curb with garbage, talking to neighbors five feet apart, and my daughter, grandchildren, and Amazon delivery men and women through the door. I began a weekly short-lived virtual cocktails email with friends and busied myself with vegetable planting, organizing my screws and nails, color coding my sewing spools, making spinach, blueberry, strawberry, and yogurt shakes, cooking, and posting pictures, and increasing dissatisfaction with the GOP on Facebook.
Then several of my dear friends’ health situations and ailments shifted to include encephalitis, memory loss, Parkinson’s, inability to walk, and cancer reoccurrences. My dog Thor died leaving his brother Thunder behind who was befriended by my two cats Sebastian and Viola who began sleeping with me.
I’ve found Now Church where people are kind and welcoming. I’m scheduled for my fourth covid shot next week. And adjusting to the new normal of the pandemic, and tiptoeing into blogging while my sprained left wrist heals. I’ll be adding a comments section as soon as I figure out how to do that. Until then, Heart Hugs and keep having a fabulous life. Anna
Anna Dunwell is a full-time writer in Durham North Carolina. She is seeking representation for her first book Paradise Lies: A Modern Slave Narrative, working on her second book Flight to Utopia. https://www.newstatesman.com/encounter/2022/04/noam-chomsky-were-approaching-the-most-dangerous-point-in-human-history/embed#?secret=hzOLQfgpIe
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