Category: The Austin Chronicle
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August 31, 2021 – The Resurgence of COVID-19 : a Week After Our Booster (3rd Shot) – MUCH Better!
Today marks a week since Sheila and I got our booster shots, and I’m very glad to say we seem to have recovered from it (esp me) much quicker and cleaner than either shots 1 or 2!
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August 26, 2021 – The Resurgence of COVID-19 : First Full Day After Our Booster (3rd Shot)
I didn’t think to get a pic of our drive-thru line at our Dr’s clinic, it would’ve been nice, ’cause Sheila and I have been lucky enough to get our Covid-19 booster shot (Moderna version)! There’s several bits of info we learned going through the process of setting up and obtaining our appts for our…
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August 25, 2021 – The Resurgence of COVID-19 : Wife and I Got Our Booster Shots!!
I didn’t think to get a pic of our drive-thru line at our Dr’s clinic, it would’ve been nice, ’cause Sheila and I have been lucky enough to get our Covid-19 booster shot (Moderna version)! There’s several bits of info we learned going through the process of setting up and obtaining our appts for our…
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August 15, 2021 – The Resurgence of COVID-19 : The Austin Chronicle, “ICU Bed Availability Drops to All-Time Low”
The day after a wrenching if beautiful funeral and burial tribute for my 94 year old mom, infected with covid and other ills of being elderly, I read this grim statistic for where we live, Austin; and apparently true for most of the state of Texas…That she lived her life fully belies the somewhat separate…
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August 11, 2021 – The Resurgence of COVID-19 : My Mom Has Passed
A challenge, a pleasure and a remembrance of a woman who while nearly universally proclaimed by family and my friends (from grade school thru high school to college!) as an angel, she lived her life so angelically and seamlessly, I never noticed it happening.
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August 9, 2021 – The Resurgence of COVID-19 : The Hill, “Bars, restaurants move to impose vaccine mandates”
My recently begun series, “Resurgence of Covid-19 Austin 2021” continues with this story from The Hill – “Full-service operators, operators of bars, they want to get back to business and one challenge that they’re facing is labor. They need to have a labor pool they can rely on, they need to be able to expand…
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August 07, 2021 – The Resurgence of COVID-19 : The Austin Chronicle, “Vaccine or Ventilator? You Decide”
A few days ago I posted some dire TV screen headlines via KVUE news here in Austin — Things have only intensified, as even a quick read of the Austin Chronicle’s article will show. The 1st sentence reads, “Only 14 staffed intensive care unit beds were available in hospitals in and around Austin as of…
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Aging Through Covid-19, May 26, 2020 – Be Kitschig RePost
Photo Lessons for Dummies by BE KITSCHIG is a superb humor laden look at the all too common pitfalls and inadvertent mistakes we all non-professionals make with our cameras 😂
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Aging Through Covid-19, May 20, 2020 – Legal Struggles About the Right to Vote
A bit of news out of my home state of Texas. For the past decade, the two main political parties of that state have battled in and out of court in regard to things vote related. Actually seemingly everything vote related, lol!
