Surfing the Crisis

To say that this pandemic and the ensuing stay-at-home period took us all by surprise is trite at this point. In order to make sense of it, many of us scoured the news for updates on the pandemic. We wanted to better understand the virus, how it was spreading and what...

Corona Virus & Women’s Rights

This is a good article about how the COVID-19 pandemic will wreak havoc on women’s rights globally. Helen Lewis writes about the dangers of treating the pandemic in a gender-neutral way, with no analysis of the difference ways it is affecting the sexes. Historically,...

My 2020

I shared this at the start of this year. Although this year has been filled with turmoil on the global and national stage from the crashing oil prices, falling into an economic recession and the biggie: the COVID-19 pandemic, and therefore far from glorious, I remain...

Hello World …. again

So, here I am taking another stab at blogging. My first blog – Ore’s Notes: orenotes.blogspot.com started in 2005 and I kept it up for 7 years. Incredible! I am surprised by my dedication to it. That is not to say that I lack the willpower to follow things...