{"id":29730,"date":"2020-03-29T00:01:27","date_gmt":"2020-03-29T07:01:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/barbarafalconernewhall.com\/?p=29730"},"modified":"2020-03-29T00:01:27","modified_gmt":"2020-03-29T07:01:27","slug":"forget-the-coronavirus","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/server.stagingweb3.net\/barbarafalconernewhall\/forget-the-coronavirus\/","title":{"rendered":"It’s Time to Forget the Coronavirus for a Few Hours a Day — And Find Some Normalcy. Sheltering in Place Day 12"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Will Donald Trump be the death of me? And millions of others? His slow-walking of the nation’s coronavirus response has put us all in danger. I face off with Donald Trump\u00a0 on my Day 11 rant<\/a>. That said, I’d like to forget the coronavirus and Donald Trump for a few hours a day for a while.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Sheltering at Home Day 12, March 29, 2010<\/strong><\/p>\n

It’s time to get back to work on my next book. This daily sheltering at home\u00a0 journal has been a great stress releaser for me. But it’s time to forget the coronavirus for a few hours a day and find a bit of normalcy.<\/p>\n

Try to anyway.<\/p>\n

Pandemic or no, I want to resume the book writing part of my life here at home as Jon and I continue this bizarre routine of self-isolation.<\/p>\n

If you’re new to my Sheltering at Home diary, please check out “Day 11: Will Donald Trump Be the Death of Me? Pardon My Rant as I Shelter in Place.”<\/a><\/p>\n

And don’t miss\u00a0 “Day 5: We’re Pushing 80. Do We Stay Out of Supermarkets?”<\/a><\/p>\n

This diary has been wonderful for working off stress, as the coronavirus stats shoot up around the country and creep ever closer to my own city — and to my children’s cities.<\/p>\n

Forget the Coronavirus — For the Next Few Paragraphs Anyway<\/strong><\/h5>\n

But — these blog posts have left no time at all for work on my next book. It’s working title is “Erma Bombeck and Betty Friedan Meet for Coffee: A Memoir in Essays.” It’s all about what happens when a 1970s feminist drop-out ditches her leather bell bottoms and acquires a straight job on a big city newspaper, a husband, a house, and two kids — who will later grow up to be millennials.<\/p>\n

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Kindergartener Christina. Photo by Barbara Newhall<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

If you’ve been following this blog, you’ve read some of the 100 plus essays I’m planning to put into that book. Maybe you remember reading a post called “Mad Men Exposes the ’60s Girdle. But Will She Get It Off inTime?”<\/a><\/p>\n

Also, “Scrubbing the Floor With My Daughter Cinderella.”<\/a><\/p>\n

My first book, as many of you know, is “Wrestling with God: Stories of Doubt and Faith.” It’s a skeptic’s journey<\/a> through the religions of the world in search of a way to believe in God — or Something — in the 21st century. That book came out of my time as the religion reporter at the Contra Costa Times.<\/p>\n

Not to worry. I’ll keep you posted on the goings on at our house on the hill as Jon and I continue to shelter in place and hope for the best. I’ll also let you know how things are going with Erma and Betty.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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Sheltering at Home Day 12. It’s time to forget the coronavirus for a few hours a day — try to — and get back to work on my next book. Read more.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":29743,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41,52],"tags":[957,134,2179,34,1562,1444,2184,197,2232,53],"class_list":["post-29730","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sheltering-at-home-chronicles","category-the-writing-room","tag-blogging","tag-books","tag-coronavirus","tag-dont-miss","tag-donald-trump","tag-erma-bombeck","tag-sheltering-at-home","tag-the-writing-room-2","tag-tribune-column","tag-wrestling-with-god"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/server.stagingweb3.net\/barbarafalconernewhall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29730","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/server.stagingweb3.net\/barbarafalconernewhall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/server.stagingweb3.net\/barbarafalconernewhall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/server.stagingweb3.net\/barbarafalconernewhall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/server.stagingweb3.net\/barbarafalconernewhall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=29730"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/server.stagingweb3.net\/barbarafalconernewhall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29730\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/server.stagingweb3.net\/barbarafalconernewhall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29730"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/server.stagingweb3.net\/barbarafalconernewhall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=29730"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/server.stagingweb3.net\/barbarafalconernewhall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=29730"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}