By Karen Shanley|2020-08-03T16:57:04-04:00August 3rd, 2020|.My Dogs and Me, Finnegan the Coon Cat, Life|0 Comments
Finding the Truth in the Time of Alternative Facts and Fake News – It Can Be Done
We’ve come to live in a complicated, splintered world where not all realities are shared equally anymore. For instance, in this age of Trump, one can choose the option of “alternative facts.” The divisiveness that is happening in this country (and around the world) is like nothing I’ve seen in my lifetime. As someone who works hard at being clear and living a spiritual life, this is more than disconcerting.
At least in the US, the generally accepted practice has been that one should neither discuss politics nor religion in polite company. While there’s a problem with that view as well, it wasn’t based on fear; fear […]
Graidy 2003-ish — May 13, 2020
The first day I met Graidy at Glen Highland Farm Rescue.
Whenever I think of Graidy, this is the pose I think of him in the most. Facing out, looking off into the distance. In fact, this is the first vision I had of him before I even met him. I wrote this story as fiction because it’s pretty fantastical about how he found me. But every word of it is true.
This is my favorite photo of him. It captures how I feel about him. A shimmering light in my […]
Down the Rabbit Hole
In some ways, this time we’re living in hasn’t really changed my life at all. Once a hermit, always a hermit. Yes, I really do like being alone. Really.
But with Andrew and Cait home full-time, I find myself watching more TV with them than I usually would.
And I guess it would be no surprise either that I have somewhat eclectic tastes when it comes to what I can actually sit through, which eliminates gratuitous violence, anything with a laugh track, anything that requires fiddling with the volume because the music is played much louder than the […]
And the Beat Goes On
Wilson is a dead ringer for Kiera in looks and work ethic. Meanwhile, my couch potatoes are waiting for their first unemployment check.
Cause for Concern and Laughter
We are living in interesting times, as the curse/saying goes. Because of my work with healthcare, I am probably more aware than average of where we are and where we’re headed with COVID-19.
Here’s an interactive map that shows how the virus is spreading in this country.
The following chart shows where the world is on March 23rd. Today, the US has 42,484 cases. Yesterday, there were 26,900. Do the math. The exponential horse is out of the barn.
Click on this chart to see how many new cases are occurring each day by country.
I don’t scare easily. […]