This may come as a shock, but I’m not actually trained as a physician. Having said that, a tweet by a reporter at CNN caught my eye today.“Jesus is my vaccine” is one of the more colorful messages here. pic.twitter.com/vw5qolIlHC— Miguel Marquez (@miguelmarquez) April 20, 2020Listen, protestors, I’ve been battling cabin fever, too…
Continuing an occasional series about what reporters talk about when we’re on scene somewhere but not not talking about the scene: Today, I was at Fair Park. The North Texas Food Bank and National Guard had teamed up, not unlike the Bushwackers. Though their mission was to provide boxes of food to prevent you from having to lick each…
I may never have mentioned this before, and certainly not as recently as last week, but I was in a minor car crash five years ago. The Baylor Institute for Rehabilitation called a few months back asking if I’d be in a study about recovery from traumatic brain injury.”Sure, my recovery was epic,” I explained. “But I didn…
Headed into Holy Week, the pope is urging us to look to the real heroes.He presents a strong point: In Fort Worth, the ambulance provider, MedStar [which has declared me a media hero on two separate occasions. But this isn’t about me.] is responding to dozens of potential COVID-19 calls every day.Loyal Scaiaholics will recall I…
April 3, 2020 Dearest LuLuBell,Lo, as the third week of working remotely draws to a close, I wonder why we, as a society, stopped using “lo” as an interjection.Some thoughts: frankly, I think I would look quite stylish in a cloth mask. My concern is if we all start wearing bandannas again, there will be a marked…
April 1, 2020 Darling LuLuBell, It has been nearly 48 hours since my last correspondence. But even while cut off from society, my mission continues.I’ve spent, lo, these past 48 hours screening new television shows to help my self-quarantined Scaiaholics learn how to best pass the time.Yesterday I issued an executive order that goes…
More states are closing schools and issuing various shelter-in-place or social distancing warnings.As a result, small businesses have been pummeled. But not all of them. Many people are reading books again. For America’s youth, a “book” is similar to a website, but it’s printed on paper, so it can be screened even if the internet…