1 April
Online news this morning includes a Bloomberg report of promising statistics: Italy’s rate of new virus patients seems to be...
31 March 2020
When a social welfare state doesn’t seem like such a bad idea: when the Protezione Civile delivers a washable, protective...
Wednesday, 25 March
This morning light snow is falling, big lazy flakes drifting down to melt away on contact with earth or object. ...
Tuesday, 24 March
It’s either Day Five or Six of our quarantine period. My husband arrived Mondovì station last Thursday at 9:30 am...
Monday, 23 March 2020
Today the Italian government issued a revised form of the auto-dichiarazione (self-declaration) we must all carry when we leave our...
Quarantine
My husband and I have been going about life under quarantine much as we would under normal circumstances. We spend part...
High anxiety
18 March I realized yesterday that going to the supermarket makes me feel anxious. Going indoors almost anywhere except home...
20 March 2020
We are at home together. We both feel well although we each need a haircut, a situation we’ll just have...
19 March 2020
Numbers of new virus patients are rising; the numbers of dead in Italy are staggering and continue to mount here...
18 March 2020
I realized yesterday that going to the supermarket makes me feel anxious. Going indoors almost anywhere except home makes my...