by Philip Caputo | May 7, 2021 | Journal of a Plague Year, News
The other day, while walking home from lunch at the Pancho Villa cafe, I ran into my favorite anti-vaxxer, who remarked that I wasn’t wearing a mask. Her tone was anything but censorious — she was maskless as well — leading me to believe she was...
by Philip Caputo | Apr 26, 2021 | Journal of a Plague Year, News
The drive we made from Norwalk, Connecticut to Patagonia, Arizona, a month ago was very different from the one last June in the opposite direction. The people we met along those 2500 miles were taking the pandemic more seriously, obeying mask requirements posted on...
by Philip Caputo | Jan 27, 2021 | News
I had my inaugural dose of the Pfizer vaccine on Inauguration Day, a week ago today. This came about as a result of a notification from the Centers for Disease Control that I, as a 75+geezer, was eligible for the vaccine; all I had to do was fill out an online form,...
by Philip Caputo | Jan 11, 2021 | News
I had a long conversation the other day with “G” (the person addressed in #23). The main point of discussion was the possibility of a second American civil war breaking out in the near future, and what could be done to avert it. G., by the way, is a former...
by Philip Caputo | Jan 7, 2021 | News
Text of an email i sent to a friend. His name has been deleted. G: I would describe myself as “cautiously pessimistic” about the country’s future, short-term and long-term. Pessimism comes almost naturally to me, mostly because I’ve seen too...
by Philip Caputo | Jan 6, 2021 | Journal of a Plague Year, News
About 25 years ago, I started to study Stoicism, the philosophy founded in Athens in the 3d century B.C. by the Greek thinker, Zeno of Citium, developed by his pupils, Cleanthes and Chrysippus, and carried on during the first and second centuries A.D. by Romans like...
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