Thanks to COVID?

I am writing this blog on the first day following my self-imposed COVID quarantine. I tested negative yesterday, and today I went on a short bike ride. I feel about 70% recovered. I am still weak, and I still sleep upwards of 12 hours a day, but my brain is not foggy...

A Knock at the Door

I avoid politics in my blogs. My left-of-center views sometimes find their way into my writing, but I’ve never made a politician or a political issue the main topic in any of my postings. That is until this week. Today I will deviate from my no-politics policy,...

For the Birds

I am now five days into what I thought would be a one day project. If it was just a matter of the time needed to complete all of the work, I might have finished everything in a day, maybe a day and a half. But because it is an undertaking that requires full...

Age Is More Than a State of Mind

Upstream of the Upper Peninsula’s Bond Falls is a series of small (approximately 20” x 10”) concrete platforms that, in years past, allowed visitors to easily step from platform to platform and walk across the Ontonagon River. Just upstream of the structure is a hydro...
Steven Simpson