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Pinched in between the Corona Pandemic and the Presidential election this fall is the Venezuelan crisis which continues to live a life of its own. Or is it? President Trump was, before the Corona Virus reared its ugly head, moving more warships to the Venezuelan area.

Quote of the week…“Happiness is inward not outward; and so it does not depend on what we have, but on what we are.” —CC— These are challenging times. We must remember that even though it seems the world is crumbling, we don’t have to be a crumb in the midst of the crumbling.

Well, Nancy Pelosi gave in—finally—and signed the big Corona Bill that will hopefully give $1,200 in stimulus dollars to each taxpaying adult. The bill was stagnating for two or three days on her desk before she finally yielded to pressure and wrote her name on it.

Since I am not in the classroom anymore, I don’t have any reason to dread, fear, acknowledge or otherwise survive April Fool’s Day. It just simply isn’t on my busy retired schedule this year. It’s pretty profound.

—CC— Quote of the Week…“We are told that automation is a process that gets all the work done while you just stand there. When we were younger, this process was called Mother.” —CC— Even before America contracted this pandemic of coronavirus, we were dying from a plague of loneliness.

—CC— Quote of the Week…“The girl who remembers her first kiss now has a daughter who can’t even remember her first husband.

Here it is. Another week. Same old Corona virus. Well not really. But it does make me think of the old 1918 Spanish Flu that swept the world. In 1918 there was not much radio and no TV. News traveled slow.

Quote of the Week…. “Old folks are worth a fortune, with silver in their hair, gold in their teeth, stones in their kidneys, lead in their feet, and gas in their stomachs.” —CC— This week I turned a year older and the older I get I have found that there are …..

Okay, this week, you’ll be joining Julia as she tackles one of her favorite hobbies, baking. A while ago we received a recipe from a dear friend and reader from Lebanon Ohio, Auntie Norma, as we call her. She had sent a banana cake recipe and suggested that Julia would try making it.

I envy Kevin (not his real name). He thinks God lives under his bed. He was praying out loud in his dark bedroom one night and I stopped to listen. “Are you there, God?” he said. “Where are you? Oh, I see. Under the bed...” Kevin’s unique perspectives are often a source of amusement.