Are you feeling stuck at home? Under “house arrest”? Quarantined? Banished from society? And are you grousing about the facts of it all?

Come on people; why the gloom and doom. Yes, it’s bad, but I propose let’s quit murmuring negatively and think positive. Stuck at home? Yes, at age 78, I am for sure. But now I have Gov. Inslee-sanctioned time to clean out cupboards and closets, try a new recipe, read a good book (one in a pile!), sort and identify that box of photos, empty the mending basket, work on training my puppy, work on my genealogy, and in general swashbuckle away those been-there-forever items on my To-Do List.

I say it’s a beautiful day in the neighborhood and let’s think upon what we can/should do rather than what we cannot or should not do. Feeling “stuck” is a state of mind!

Donna Potter Phillips

Spokane