If you’re hunkered down at home waiting for the virus to pass, what are you doing with your time?
Maybe you’re reading a good book, rewiring the lamp that hasn’t worked for two years or cleaning the garage.
Perhaps you’re sorting through clothes you no longer wear so they can be donated to Goodwill, or you’re catching up with old friends with whom you haven’t communicated in quite a while.
Maybe you are organizing and labeling boxes of family photographs.
As for me, I’m writing my memoirs.
I’m doing it because there have been times I’ve mentioned some aspect of my life — like the time I scored a two-point basket against the Harlem Globetrotters in an exhibition basketball game — and one of my grown children has said he or she hadn’t known that.
Here are some other ideas:
* Play a board game. My wife, Sherry, bought a Jeopardy game, and we had great fun playing it with one of our sons, Brendan, who was visiting from St. Louis. We were reminded how much we don’t know.
* Help keep a favorite restaurant in business by ordering meals to pick up or have delivered.
* Clean drawers, cupboards and closets to remind yourself what you have. Then you can dispose of items you no longer need or use.
* Check on elderly friends and relatives to see if they need anything (like that hard-to-come-by toilet paper).
* Come up with some questions and conduct a videotape interview with an elderly relative.
* Start or continue work on your genealogy.
* Make some cloth facemasks to donate to health care workers.
* Watch an old movie. Sherry and I recently streamed on Netflix a 1952 classic, “African Queen,” starring Humphrey Bogart and Katharine Hepburn.
