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NOTES FROM AN ISLAND – Day 222, Oct 31, 2020 – Halloween

by Keith Mankin | Oct 31, 2020 | Uncategorized

 Another holiday falls to the pandemic. Halloween 2020 is relegated because imaginary terrors cannot measure up to the real anxieties of disease and politics. I’m sorry for the youngsters who will miss a Halloween. Hopefully, there is just this one lost, for you...

NOTES FROM AN ISLAND Day 207 – October 9, 2020 Happy Birthday, HJM

by Keith Mankin | Oct 9, 2020 | Uncategorized

 My father, Henry Mankin MD, would have been 92 today. He was a wise and powerful leader, a larger-than-life hero who never entered a room without commanding it. He was also funny, snarky and sentimental. I miss him all the time. I have often wondered, since the...

NOTES FROM AN ISLAND Day 206 – October 8, 2020 Two Hundred Days!

by Keith Mankin | Oct 8, 2020 | Uncategorized

 NOTES FROM AN ISLAND Day 206 – October 8, 2020 Two hundred days on the island have come and passed – two hundred! The pandemic that was supposed to be gone by Easter has consumed Memorial Day, Arbor Day, the Fourth of July, both Mother’s and Father’s Day, Labor...

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