TOM DEMPSEY: KICKING WITH HALF A FOOT

I've written a long essay on Tom Dempsey, who died of coronoavirus while living in a rest home where he was being treated for dementia. It's a bit of a reminiscence about my young football days too. It went up yesterday at Patreon.com on my subscription football site, FMTE, and is today up at Medium, where this link will let you read it bypassing the paywall, if that's the way you rock.

COVID-19: OUR MODERN MASQUE OF THE RED DEATH

I've written about the Corona Virus, Covid-19, in terms of Edgar Allan Poe and the Masque Of The Red Death. Poe never conceived of Trump or Boris Johnson, but I suppose he never had to. It's up at Medium, and you can link to it, bypassing the paywall, here.