Lunar Notes: January 2022
Aries: Usually you don’t care about your reputation, public image or standing in the community as you are fiercely independent and will go your own way no matter what. But […]
Events:
The Flower, The Labor, and The Sea
September 27, 2025 - June 28, 2026
A Drink for Dry January
Somehow, it is now 2022. Regardless of how fast these last two years have gone, it’s time to set those New Year’s resolutions and for some of us, that means […]
FDA shortens wait for COVID-19 vaccine booster to 5 months, expands eligibility down to age 12
Major changes were authorized this morning to increase access to booster shots for the COVID-19 vaccine from Pfizer-BioNTech by the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA). There are three main […]
RI app shows verifiable vaccination status: Generates trusted secure QR code
(App download links at end of article.) RI has updated and renamed its “401Health” app (previously “Crush COVID RI”) for Google Android and Apple iOS, the office of Gov. Daniel […]
Monoclonal Antibodies (MABS) Delays: Effective COVID-19 treatment faces logistical obstacles
Treatment with monoclonal antibodies (MABS) is recommended and authorized to keep patients who test positive for COVID-19 out of the hospital, reducing the severity of mild to moderate symptoms. The […]
Omicron in RI: First patient identified
Omicron has been detected in RI, according to an announcement this afternoon from the office of Governor Daniel McKee. “The individual who tested positive is a person in their 20s […]
Sleighing Christmas Stereotypes: Dear Santa Book Review
Dear Santa compiles five stories that are told through poetic letter writing between Santa and various characters that took the time to initiate a written correspondence with him. All of […]
Concrete and Cardinals
Scott Turner’s brief articles in The Providence Journal always provided welcome glimpses of natural landscapes. Beauty in the Street – Nature Tales from the Neighborhood collects many of these, as well […]
Where the Benny’s Used To Be: A Rhode Island Pictorial History Series
Rhode Island Memories is a three volume coffee table book published by The Providence Journal that serves as a pictorial history of this state. With photos beginning in the late […]
No More Waffling: Forever a Burgundian
Someone who loves food and drink, in both quality and quantity, shared among good company: this not only describes who I am as a person, but it also defines a […]