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Coronavirus March 23

By From https://odonnellweb.com/pelican/ • Mar 22nd, 2020 • Category: Blog Entries.Local

Coronavirus
It’s apparently National Puppy Day and we could all use more puppies now

Like everybody else, the pandemic is “top of mind” 24 x 7 for me. I’m writing to help myself not internalize all of it. You can find other posts in the series at https://odonnellweb.com/pelican …



Coronavirus March 22

By From https://odonnellweb.com/pelican/ • Mar 21st, 2020 • Category: Blog Entries.Local

Coronavirus
North Anna River at North Anna Battlefield

Like everybody else, the pandemic is “top of mind” 24 x 7 for me. I’m writing to help myself not internalize all of it.

I’ve seen some comparisons to 9/11 online recently. For me, there is no contest. Coronavirus is far …



Coronavirus March 21

By From https://odonnellweb.com/pelican/ • Mar 20th, 2020 • Category: Blog Entries.Local

Like everybody else, the pandemic is “top of mind” 24 x 7 for me. I’m writing to help myself not internalize all of it.

Weekends don’t just hold the same appeal when you literally have nothing to do. The weekend did get off to a fun start at 2:30 …



Coronavirus Day 8

By From https://odonnellweb.com/pelican/ • Mar 17th, 2020 • Category: Blog Entries.Local

Us on Saint Patricks Day 2020

I’m not doing a daily lock down update here because the days are already running together from the sameness. I think once per week, with updates as warranted in between is enough. Or maybe this will be the only update you’ll see. It’s not like you are paying anything for …



From Living Our Best Lives to Hoping to Live

By From https://odonnellweb.com/pelican/ • Mar 14th, 2020 • Category: Blog Entries.Local

As I was laying in bed this morning procrastinating getting up (it’s not like I have anywhere to go!) I was thinking about how much life had changed this year, uh, month, um maybe week. I started the year looking at having maybe my best personal income year ever …



The Rescue Nurse by J Phillip Horne

By From https://odonnellweb.com/pelican/ • Mar 13th, 2020 • Category: Blog Entries.Local

Solo

Imagine somebody binged on Mission Impossible and Jason Bourne movies for a weekend, then decided to write a book immediately after that weekend binge. They might write The Rescue Nurse. The pacing can best described as frenetic, as our hero Michael Grimm
is deep in the shit within the first …



Your cavalier attitude about Coronavirus is pissing me off

By From https://odonnellweb.com/pelican/ • Mar 8th, 2020 • Category: Blog Entries.Local

Coronavirus

In my travels around the Internet and Facebook (not the same thing!) I’ve seen a disturbing number of people whose attitude is that since Cornavirus most likely won’t make them very sick, it’s not a big deal. A smaller subset takes it a step farther and claims the whole thing …



Solo by Kwame Alexander

By From https://odonnellweb.com/pelican/ • Feb 23rd, 2020 • Category: Blog Entries.Local

Solo

Simply the coolest book I’ve read in a long time. If I hadn’t forced myself to go to bed at midnight (2 hours after I started it) I would have read it one sitting. As it turned out, I read it in two sittings. It’s a YA novel about a …



It’s Only Obvious To You

By From https://odonnellweb.com/pelican/ • Feb 9th, 2020 • Category: Blog Entries.Local

A couple of years ago I published a quick how-to on passing a stupid limitation on a medically related website. Documenting it in the blog post took way longer than solving the problem. I threw up the blog post thinking one or two other people might find it interesting. Instead …



A Song For A New Day by Sarah Pinkser

By From https://odonnellweb.com/pelican/ • Feb 3rd, 2020 • Category: Blog Entries.Local

A Song For A New Day

I love live music, and this book is a coming of age story centered around the underground music scene in a dystopian near future that seems all too possible.

My biggest issue with this book is the classification of science fiction. The science and technology in the book center around …