Jottings of a journalist on lockdown
From my pandemic diary: Pandemic, Thursday, April 9, Day 22—This isolation thing is starting to feel like the new normal. Last night, I took……
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Thinking about ‘Solitude of Self’
By Wendy Nugent, Newton Now Last night, as I took my dog for a walk near Sand Creek, I thought about something I read…
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Normalcy is welcome in day-to-day life
By Wendy Nugent, Newton Now • Pandemic, Day 1, Thursday, March 19, first day of spring—Social distancing. They decided at Newton Now to close……
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How to spend your time when social distancing
By Wendy Nugent, Newton Now These past few days have been like some disaster movies I’ve seen—people locking down, a scary illness going around……
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Spring cleaning starting a little early
By Wendy Nugent, Newton Now Happy Marie Kondo season. Marie Kondo is the tiniest little Japanese woman, who is an organizing and tidying expert…….
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Wash your hands: Keeping influenza at bay
By Wendy Nugent, Newton Now This past weekend, the weekend of Feb. 1, was a bit of a blur for me. It started out……
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Adults can have fun, just like kids
By Wendy Nugent, Newton Now This past weekend, my son Rodger and I had our first official 4-H ceramics meeting at The Phoenix Originals……
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Newest Star Wars movie is great entertainment
By Wendy Nugent, Newton Now Even though I was sick on Saturday with an evil cold, my son wanted to watch the latest Star……
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Life this holiday season was a little fragile
By Wendy Nugent, Newton Now The day after Christmas, which we spent in Manhattan, where my parents and sister live, I saw a bunch…
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Color outside the lines with purple donkey
By Wendy Nugent, Newton Now I know I’ve written about my venture into ceramics before, and here I am doing it again. My venture…
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