Behind Aspen’s international skiing luster lies a deep, competitive hockey culture that makes for a tough beer league. A drive to win the bragging rights to the battered Pell Cup turns architects, bartenders, contractors, lawyers, teachers, ski bums, and friends into fierce, fist-throwing rivals…former pros, Division I college players, and old goats—or, more accurately, has-beens […]
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Over the years when I invited friends over for dinner they got pretty excited. One day I asked a guest what’s with all the excitement? Chinese food! They were expecting something I really sucked at making. To this day I don’t make much Chinese/Asian stuff. I’d rather go out and eat something someone actually knows […]
When I finished reading The Writing Life by Annie Dillard I realized my writing will never achieve the level of the great ones. But I am OK with this just as I was OK with deciding not to pursue writing for a living. Too hard, too demanding, too much time spent writing words into the […]
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Interesting. I remember at the very beginning of Covid my veterinarian, saying he hoped that his exposure to many many many different animal corona viruses over the years, would give him some immunity to COVID-19.
We obviously need more research on this but common sense tells us low level exposures to similar type viruses train the immune system to fight similar viruses in the future.
I remember when one of our Tiny Humans caught Covid-19 and she didn’t feel sick nor acted sick. Tested positive and was asymptomatic. OK, maybe a sniffle or two.