Tag: coping with Covid-19

adjusting to retirement

The Art of Just Sitting Around

Learning to cope with retirement helped me develop skills to cope with the pandemic. Including perfecting the art of just sitting around.

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Pub Night: Brigadoon on the Jock.

During a long winter, in the middle of a lock-down, after a year of pandemic, we are so ready for a pub night. Even if it is imaginary.

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Hard Winter Tales

We’re in for a hard winter this year. Not in the old way. Not because the temperature will drop to -30° C. But in a new way because of COVID.

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Thoughts on a Post-COVID World… by D.A. Wolf

Memories of pre-pandemic days. And hopes for the post-COVID world. A guest post from D.A. Wolf of the blog Daily Plate of Crazy.

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When the Whole Year Is a Teachable Moment

2020 has been one heck of a year. A difficult year. One big teachable moment, in my opinion. And it’s not over yet.

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Counting My Blessings

We are deep into fall now, and I am counting my blessings. Remembering what an unexpectedly wonderful summer I had, despite the pandemic.

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Drifting in a Fog

The past few months I’ve felt as if I’ve been drifting in a fog of time. Is that what living during the pandemic has been like for you?

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Bumps in the Road to Reopening

We’re in stage three of reopening in Ottawa. But the road from lock-down to reopening has not been entirely smooth. There are lots of bumps, my friends..

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Desperate Hair Measures

During these desperate hair times, I have resorted to desperate hair measures. I gave myself a Covid hair cut. Yes I did!

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Wobbly Weekend

I had a wobbly weekend, my friends. Felt a bit of isolation anxiety. But like those toys from the seventies, I wobbled, but I didn’t fall down.

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