New week. New life!  The Who says it for me – Going mobile  News blues I’m off! Johannesburg, Paris, San Francisco  houseboat in Californ...

Worldwide ( Map )  May 27, 168,418,000 confirmed infections; 3,499,000 deaths April 22, 2021 – 143,503,705 confirmed infections; 3,056,00...

News blues In today’s hyper-capitalist US, if common sense, backed up by stringent science, doesn’t work to convince people to get vaccinat...

News blues As cases, hospitalizations and deaths steadily dropped this week, pre-pandemic life in America has largely resumed .  New corona...

After weeks of struggling to confirm flight details – then paying for my tickets – my fly-by-night agency cancelled the flights, communica...

Worldwide ( Map )  May 20, 2021 – 164,620,000 confirmed infections; 3,413,350 deaths Vaccinations: this week - 1,536,031,895; last week -...

© Fiore, KQED As the date for my planned departure comes closer, I become more anxious about Covid news. While the US trends towards lifting...