Category Archives: Health

Hair and Poetry

Posted on November 23, 2020 by sputterpub

When house arrest began, eight months ago,I set myself a challenge – I would writea poem to post each day. I didn’t know(who did?) how long and weaponless the fightwould be, contagious ignorance the foe,and never planned to never cut … Continue reading →

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TG Day Plan

Posted on November 22, 2020 by sputterpub

The last two years we’ve brought Thanksgiving fareto Portland for that branch of family.But they’ve requested we not visit there,protecting compromised immunity.And then our aged mother asked we spareher risk of sick from love’s proximity.We hear and understand. We think … Continue reading →

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Overdue for a Checkup

Posted on November 21, 2020 by sputterpub

Incessant sniffles don’t appear to bea sign of Covid – they predate this year:A symptom of old age, apparently,as membranes dry and mucus tries to clearreactive channels. Used to never sneeze,I’m unaccustomed to cascades of snot.I don’t think I have … Continue reading →

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Booster

Posted on November 19, 2020 by sputterpub

Eight months ago, when house arrest began,I tried to learn to only touch my faceat home alone and clean. My hygiene planinvolved increasing time inside my place,enduring masking when around a manor woman I don’t know, and no embracebeyond my … Continue reading →

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‘Lection Lessons

Posted on November 17, 2020 by sputterpub

I felt so humbled as I watched returns,accepting that I hadn’t any clueto how the half who voted for him work.I’ve failed to feel and write someone who spurnsthe facts for magic thinking, and the truefor Puritan simplistic blue-law murk. … Continue reading →

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Couch Potato

Posted on November 9, 2020 by sputterpub

I’m glad we have power tonight.The fires are down; winds are light.Exhausted by news,seeking what will amuse,I’ll be screening a romance or fright.

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Results

Posted on November 7, 2020 by sputterpub

It’s difficult to catch a cold right nowfor those of us who shelter in our place.I cannot get the flu; I don’t know howto breathe the germs with mask upon my face.The buses and the planes I used to rideare … Continue reading →

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Testing

Posted on November 5, 2020 by sputterpub

We’re Northern California fortunate.We have the weather and topography,and most are masked when that’s appropriate,and many aren’t at extremity.But lately some are ailing. I can seethe symptoms of infection in a guywho works with us (we think he got too … Continue reading →

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Ninfo

Posted on November 1, 2020 by sputterpub

Enjoying cannabis for 50 years,we hungered for some facts about the stuff.Outlawed no science looked, and it appearswe still can’t get, of useful facts, enough. And business interests lobbied to concealthe truth about cholesterol and fat.We sought the best and … Continue reading →

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Sleep Changes

Posted on October 30, 2020 by sputterpub

Sleep patterns alter as our bodies age:From infancy when naps fill day and night,decreasing dream time till we reach the stageof teen ability to sleep in lightof morning, anywhere and any time,to young adulthood woken by our kids,to solid aR … Continue reading →

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