Tag Archives: Covid 19

Mother and Son in a Daily Dance of Pain

As I lift up my mother from her sick bed, I sometimes think of Roethke’s “My Papa’s Waltz,” even though the situations are markedly different.

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Rhinos Ignore Covid Protocols

Covid-19 isn’t over but people are acting as though it is. This theater historians invokes Ionesco’s “Rhinoceros” to caution us.

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Covid Denial and Illusions of Mastery

We passed 700,000 Covid deaths over the weekend, Elizabeth Bishop’s “One Art” explains how certain people have numbed themselves to the disaster.

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