Vistas & Byways Review - Fall 2020
  • Contents
    • In This Issue
    • Fiction
    • Nonfiction
    • Poetry
    • Bay Area Neighborhoods
    • Inside OLLI
  • About Us
  • Contributors
  • Submissions
  • Archive
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    • SPRING 2019
    • Fall 2018
    • SPRING 2018
    • FALL 2017
    • FALL 2016
    • SPRING 2016
    • FALL 2015

BAY AREA NEIGHBORHOODS 



Life in the Time of COVID-19
A Photo Essay
​by  Charlene Anderson


These days, we wear a mask everywhere we go. 

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There are long lines to buy things, even outside.

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​There are boarded up buildings, though the business owners
​do their best to stay open and be helpful

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Some even try to turn the boarding into art.

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At last, we can go to The Green Apple, but there is plenty
of reading before we even get in.

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Sometimes we feel like we are living in a tiny house, alone,

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Or are stranded in a mass of tangled weeds,
​not knowing what to do or where to go.

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Ocean Beach is still here, but with almost nobody on it.
(It was always fairly empty, but not like now.)

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And flowers bloom,
​uproariously, gloriously, obliviously.

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So, the world goes on,
​though certainly not as before.

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ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Charlene Anderson received an MA in English Literature from Purdue University and an MA in Research Psychology from San Francisco State University and spent most of her working life at the University of California San Francisco in grant administration. As a child, she always knew she would write, told stories to her friends, and even invented a pen name for herself, Charles Andrè. So, while working on budgets and submitting grant proposals at UCSF, she continued to write and, in 2001 published a novel, Berkeley’s Best Buddhist Bookstore. When Vistas & Byways was launched in 2015, she was pleased to be asked to chair the Editorial Board. She has served in that capacity ever since.
Other works in this issue:
Fiction
A Tired and Lazy God
Poetry
In the Shadow
Inside OLLI
Tribute to Richard Simmonds


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NONFICTION

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Vistas & Byways Review is the semiannual journal of fiction, nonfiction and poetry by members of Osher Lifelong Learning Institute (OLLI) at San Francisco State University​.​
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  • Contents
    • In This Issue
    • Fiction
    • Nonfiction
    • Poetry
    • Bay Area Neighborhoods
    • Inside OLLI
  • About Us
  • Contributors
  • Submissions
  • Archive
    • Spring 2020
    • FALL 2019
    • SPRING 2019
    • Fall 2018
    • SPRING 2018
    • FALL 2017
    • FALL 2016
    • SPRING 2016
    • FALL 2015