Looking out my Backdoor: Back to the future?

One must make one’s own decision, must do what each figures is best for self and family and community. As for me and many of my friends, we choose to continue staying home, having no touchy-feely (sigh) communication with others.

We are retired. It is easier for us to hole up, to forego the little extras, the advantages of modern life to which we’ve become accustomed, as if those things are our due.

Have any of you elders noticed how living this pared-down life in self-isolation is similar to life in the ’50s?

Listen up, young’uns and I’ll tell you about it.

I think the main difference between...