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I Found Sexy Distractions from My COVID-19 Life

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I don’t know about you, but I’ve set up a pattern in my life of COVID-19.

When I wake, I clean all the surfaces. The coffee pot is the second to-do item. Checking Florida’s COVID-19 Date and Surveillance Dashboard along with the national and local headlines are next. After that, I touch base with friends and family and then I’m off to my writing world.

I fight the numbness that attempts to set in during the day. To counteract it, I search for internet connections filled with emotion. Without a way to have that in my ‘out and about’ life, I must look for it virtually. I want to feel alive.

I want and need the emotion stirred in me for my job to write. And it’s from those emotions I move into creating characters and stories. I need to locate some of that virtual energy daily and see how long the energy stays with me.

Here are the four distractions that grabbed me and provided sustained energy in my life. I hope they may help you.

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