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Day 19: Under control and innovating… Many of you expressed such a heartwarming concern about us after our last journal post. Rest assured we are fine and apparently Jordan is even finer, flying high like…

Day 17 of Jordan lockdown: Wait and worry... Should we be worried? We’ve been very pleased about our situation in Jordan. Much as we would prefer to be a few other places, we recognize we…

Day 13 of Jordan lockdown: Decline and flee Today we celebrated some good news with a nice long walk, a tiny bit of shopping (lemon, chilis, labaneh, hair color) and amiably competitive battles of backgammon…

Day 10 – 12 of Jordan lockdown: Produce and Progress Today’s a blustery day (Day 12 of lockdown, Wednesday 1 April, 2020) so we will probably not spend our usual deck time with backgammon and…

Day 9 of Jordan lockdown: Spirits raised and acquired… We stayed up late last night in conversations back to the US, so we headed outside a bit later than usual today. Nonetheless, we enjoyed playing…

Day 7 & 8 of lockdown: The routine and the effect of irresponsibility Day 8 It seemed to us that the government here was doing a good job on covid-19, but it’s now semi-official as…

Day 5 and 6: A little bit of freedom... In the evening of Day 4 of the Jordan lockdown, we learned that we would be given a test reprieve the next day. The original plan…

Locked down... Many of you are dealing with upheaval in daily life and various forms of isolation, but perhaps you might find our current coronavirus adventure interesting. In short, we have remained in Amman, Jordan,…

Why do ruins attract us so much? One reason is confronting history in the flesh, so to speak, listening in person to the stones and carvings from thousands of years ago. Related to this is…