DESTINATION: 8.ZERO

A book of daily journal entries focusing on our pandemic quarantine and my reactions to events formed and influenced by the pandemic.

In this book, I have reflected on a daily basis within my 80th year the effect the pandemic and the subsequent quarantine had on our lives. Such enforced quarantine has allowed me the time to articulate several philosophical and critical views on death, art and literature. I have evaluated family and friend relationships and have attempted to broaden and deepen them. Some thoughts are simply mundane details of everyday life familiar to probably many readers. My thoughts and opinions may be contradictory at times, but they are my words at that moment. No one knows the future and I simply wanted to go on record for family and friends.

Jim is a former literature teacher, union organizer and political activist. He has authored audio travel tapes on Venice and the Vatican Art Gallery, an account of Beat icon Neal Cassady's last days in San Miguel de Allende, Mexico and literary critiques of some Hemingway short stories. He lives in Tarpon Springs, FL with his wife Joyce and their dog Casey.