R. Paul Herman as Vincent Van Gogh. Photo courtesy of R. Paul Herman and Gayle Keck.

Welcome to this edition of COVID-19 takes on fine art! The photo above – and the 2 photos below – are part of a series called Quarantine Hats, by travel writer Gayle Keck (though she does other writing too) and HIP Investor CEO R. Paul Herman. While quarantined in their San Francisco home, they’ve been posting a series of character shots of Paul in various international costumes. And they’ve made me so happy.

After 2 weeks at home, and some lazy gym workouts before all this happened, I’m feeling out of shape. Walks don’t cut it – even if I actually take a walk. I keep vowing to do stairclimbs on my home stairs. Hasn’t happened. So I got serious yesterday investigating various online workouts I could do, saving links, and then rewarding myself with a cocktail (using the cherry liquor Carmel gifted us before she left. Miss you Carmel!).

I decided to start with Crunch Live (which really isn’t live), since they’re giving members free access while the gyms are closed (and they are not charging us gym dues either). I got our home gym space prepared.

 

I told Dori she should work out with me. One class a day. And I let her pick the class for today. I won’t let her pick again. OMG it was sooooooo hard!!!

As usual, thank you to those who created these. I would give credit where due, but I’m not sure which are originals from the Facebook posts where I took them, and which were copied/pasted.

Shakespeare wrote King Lear during the plague. Read what the writers had to say about that. It’s really funny.

Part 2 of things making me laugh while sheltering in place.