My Dearest LuLuBell,Lo, it has been so long our last correspondence. And I just now realized you actually made your debut in my blog seven years ago. At the risk of editorializing, I dare say I was a visionary in trying to prevent constant surveillance.If there’s anything we’ve learned from the Television Review Page [spoilers: There…
This COVID-19 situation is wearing on everyone. Some of us have reacted by wandering into Dealey Plaza [I don’t understand why people thought that was questionable. It’s not as though anything bad has happened there before].An associate texted the other day. Earlier this year, I got this handsome wedding invitation.The text was less handsome. He…
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…