Memorial: 100 thousand

If you haven’t already seen it, do visit this interactive piece on the New York Times’ webpage, “An Incalculable Loss.” It attempts to recall, however distantly, the nearly 100,000 Americans who have lost their lives to Covid-19 so far.

It is behind a soft wall, but you can see it for free simply by signing up.

But, on this memorial day, let us take it as an opportunity to genuinely remember...both those lost in military service, and in this new war of disease and pandemic.

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About me: I’m a writer and former journalist who has published material on everything from computers to the Jazz Age. (Among my small claims to fame is that I interviewed Steve Jobs just after that talented if complicated man got kicked out of Apple, and just before the company’s Board came begging him to come back.)

Please check out my new book, Padre: To The Island, a meditation on mortality, grief, and joy, based on the lives and deaths of two of the most amazing and unconventional people I ever met, my mother and father.

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