That is Life.

Stephen M. Paulsen
5 min readMar 29, 2020

In which the author considers life in quarantine.

Photo by Fusion Medical Animation on Unsplash

Hey, kids, it’s me, the bitter cloud that goes with your silver lining coming to you live from my clean, well-lighted hovel perched on the edge of The Abyss.

In these precarious days, I am reminded of a book that was recommended to me many years ago, The Hot Zone by Richard Preston (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Hot_Zone). In the book, Preston recounts…

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Stephen M. Paulsen

Spear Thistle (Cirsium vulgare). Debatably pretty. Lots of thorns. High-functioning depressive guarded by wit, sarcasm, and brutal honesty.