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Coronalone: Week 38- “There Is Nothing Permanent Except Change”
"Change. It is inevitable, and often completely out of our control. "

Robyn Piper
Dec 15, 20205 min read
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Coronalone: Week 37- Holy Crap!
"Art has... taken on a new role in my life. It is now my “go-to” for remaining sober. What a gift."

Michael Sean Piper
Dec 11, 20202 min read
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Coronalone: Week 36- 50 Revolutions Around the Sun
"Let’s spread joy and love in whatever safe ways we can; let’s just do it without spreading this horrible virus."

Robyn Piper
Dec 9, 20202 min read
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Coronalone: Week 35- Drawing Out The Darkness
"For me, art is therapy."

Michael Sean Piper
Dec 4, 20202 min read
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Coronalone: Week 34- Mind Games
"Games have always fascinated me, from the simplest of games, like War and Candy Land, to the seriously complex, like chess or Dune."

Michael Sean Piper
Nov 21, 20203 min read
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Coronalone: Week 33- Home “Alone-er”
"Let’s love each other from a distance, letting that distance be a symbol of our compassion and concern for one another..."

Robyn Piper
Nov 20, 20205 min read
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Coronalone: Week 32: Memo to Myself
“Memo to myself: Do the dumb things I gotta do. (Touch the puppet head.)”

Robyn Piper
Nov 5, 20203 min read
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Coronalone: Weeks 29-31- She’s Gone
"...as Leonard Cohen said, 'There is a crack in everything. That’s how the light gets in.'”

Robyn Piper
Oct 27, 20203 min read
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Coronalone: Week 28- You Can’t Solve an Algebra Equation by Chewing Bubblegum
"It is an unavoidable, deeply personal, transformational experience, and no one else will ever experience it exactly the way you have."

Robyn Piper
Oct 7, 20203 min read
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Coronalone: Week 27- Who Am I To Argue?
"...who am I to argue? The story seems to know what needs to be said. Apparently, it knows that someone needs to hear it."

Robyn Piper
Sep 29, 20204 min read
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Coronalone: Week 26- What You Create Reflects Who You Are
"It’s funny that one’s art reflects one’s psyche so completely."

Michael Sean Piper
Sep 25, 20202 min read
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Coronalone: Week 25 - Happy Accidents
"...the course of renovation never did run smooth, to paraphrase a rather famous Brit..."

Robyn Piper
Sep 21, 20204 min read
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Coronalone: Week 24 – Waiting For The Piano To Fall
...we are all just one cartoon piano away from catastrophe.

Robyn Piper
Sep 11, 20204 min read
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Coronalone: Week 23 - Silencing the Inner Critic
It is amazing how dramatically our physicality can affect our psychology.

Robyn Piper
Sep 8, 20204 min read
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Coronalone: Week 22 – I Don’t Wanna Be A Vector
Trust us. We know a little about luxury vs. necessity, having lived for nearly two decades without running water at the cottage.

Robyn Piper
Aug 27, 20204 min read
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Coronalone: Week 21 – Spiders and Bats and Bears… Oh, My!
Whoever or whatever is indeed behind it all, I’d just like to thank you… and say, “I can’t believe I live here”.

Robyn Piper
Aug 20, 20206 min read
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Coronalone: Weeks 19 & 20 – The Summer That Wasn’t
For me, I think the summer of 2020 will always be “the summer that wasn’t”.

Robyn Piper
Aug 17, 20203 min read
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Coronalone: Week 18 – On Silver-Lined Clouds
Once you know how you tend to react to things, you can decide whether you’d like to change those reactions.

Robyn Piper
Aug 12, 20204 min read
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Coronalone: Week 17 - The Meaning of Life... and Blueberries
"We are all worthy of love and care, so make sure you share a little with yourself."

Robyn Piper
Jul 28, 20205 min read
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Coronalone: Week 16 - In Which We Discuss Bugs in our Ears, and Voices in our Heads
If I want my writing to be authentic, then I am going to have to allow some of these less-than-sunshiny moments to guide my (virtual) pen.

Robyn Piper
Jul 23, 20204 min read
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