Brett Robinson
By Brett Robinson • Catholic News Service • Posted January 28, 2021
Where are you? Are you reading this online? If so, where would you say you are? Perhaps you are at home or the office or a waiting room. When we’re online our physical location seems to matter less. Focused on the screen, the rest of the world kind of fades away.
As the pandemic has taught us, work and school don’t have to be conducted in a shared physical location. As long as we can “connect,” any place can become work or school.
The dining room table, once reserved for the family meal, has become a multifunctional space that doubles as a school room or office desk. This is understandable given the current conditions, but it deeply affects our sense of place.
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Where are the snowbirds? Coronavirus, hurricane make difficult winter season for Alabama beaches
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Posted Jan 17, 2021
Snowbird activity before COVID-19: Snowbirds pack the parking lot of the Erie Myer Adult Activity Center in Gulf Shores to benefit local fire departments. The brat fest, and other community fundraisers, have been canceled this year over concerns about the coronavirus pandemic. (file photo).
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Nancy and Jeff Poferl consider themselves on the “younger side” of their Minnesota snowbird flock. They say they are “relatively healthy” and aren’t overly concerned about traveling during the COVID-19 pandemic.
But before they headed south to the Alabama coast this month from their home in the St. Paul suburb of White Bear Lake, their family members had some questions.
Stewart McSweyn runs world s fastest mile for 2020, becoming the quickest Australian for 15 years
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Stewart McSweyn ran the record time at a Tasmanian Christmas Carnival Meet at Penguin.
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Australian distance running star Stewart McSweyn has capped an unprecedented year in remarkable style at the most unlikely of venues.
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It s the quickest mile run by an Australian in 15 years
McSweyn has also previously broken the Australian 1,500m and 3,000m records
Competing in a Tasmanian Christmas Carnival meet at Penguin (population 3,849 at last count), McSweyn powered to victory in the mile race in three minutes 50.61 seconds, on Tuesday night.