Aging in the Time of COVID

We wash our hands and we wear a mask.

We keep our Social Distance.

We do all the things

we know we should

at the CDC’s insistence.

We stay alive.  We try to survive.

We keep our COVID bubble.

We live a simple lifestyle as

we stay out of COVID trouble.

The days turned in to weeks and months.

The months became a year.

The vaccines bring a ray of hope.

Still we live in COVID fear.

February Book Club Meeting

To All My Friends in Genealogy Book Club:  February Meeting

It’s time to meet with our little bunch

and share our February lunch.

It’s time to visit and talk and chatter

and check on all the things that matter.

But we’re still wrapped in Virus Fear…

…so we’ll miss our Valentine’s this year.

We’ll all be safe and hunkered down.

We’ll check again when March comes ‘round!

Love, Marianna

My favorite cookies

I’m alone in the house with

Five Dozen Cookies.

They’re the cookies I like the best.

To be in a house with

Five Dozen Cookies

is about the Ultimate Test.

Will I persist or just give in?

Can I resist the lure?

Can I turn from bold temptation?

Are my eating habits pure?

I’m still in a house with

Four Dozen Cookies.

I’m afraid I failed the test.

These cookies are my fav’rite ones…

They’re the ones I like the best.