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all be back to our normal lives. Then I later moved that back to September. And here we are, 15 months later, still wearing masks and either staying home or carrying hand sanitizer with us if we venture out, maintaining distancing from strangers.

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What Will We Do With Our Time? What did we really accomplish this past year? We’ve had time, certainly, with all these lockdown days, weeks and months of isolation. We've had plenty of time to do any number of things. After reviewing my year of COVID, I realize that I could have done so much more, had I only known just how long “flattening the curve” was actually going to take.

I’m determined not to let another year go by with so little to show for it. I’ve picked out my interior paint colors. Now I’ll order the paint and go collect it curbside at the hardware store. The first file of a new novel is ready, with “Chapter 1”, a first paragraph and a sketchy synopsis of the storyline. It’s a start. My Duolingo account is still there, holding my place where I left off many months ago.

Matilda Charles regrets that she cannot personally answer reader questions, but will incorporate them into her column whenever possible. Send email to columnreply2@ gmail.com.

* Painted every room of the house three times over. Yet here I sit with color swatches still taped to the wall where I put them last spring when I thought that interior painting would be a good summer project.

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If you treat your dog like a dog, love your dog like a dog and train your dog to be the best dog he can be, you won’t confuse him -- or yourself. If you’re going to bring a dog into your home, into your life, you need to understand canine behavior. You need to educate yourself first, and then your dog, in order to bridge the communication gap. Living with a dog when you have little to no understanding of canine behavior and when neither of you has been taught to effectively communicate with the other is like traveling in a country where you don’t speak the language: stressful at times and not nearly as fun as it would be otherwise. But the saddest part of turning your dog into a person is that you inevitably lose sight of the dog. He becomes a surrogate child or a surrogate friend or a surrogate lover instead of the wonderful dog he is. Woof! * * *

Sadly, it’s possible that in another year, we’ll all still be right where we are now. I hope not. What will you do with the time? * * *

By my calculations, I could have accomplished the following:

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Aviation Facts (from page 3) speed of sound, reaching Mach 1.07 (700 mph) at an altitude of 45,000 feet. He was flying a rocket engine-powered Bell X-1 aircraft above the Mojave Desert. Yeager went on to become a fighter pilot in Vietnam, flying 127 combat missions, and rising to the rank of Brigadier General. • In 1906, while racing a car at 100 mph, Harriet Quimby was exhilarated by the thrill of speed, which led her to enroll in New York’s Moisant School of Aviation. In 1911, she became the first American woman to earn a pilot’s license. The following year, she accomplished another first – the first woman to fly across the English Channel. Sadly, less than three months later while participating in an aviation meet in Massachusetts, her aircraft abruptly and unexpectedly pitched forward. The plane was not equipped with safety harnesses, and both Quimby and her male passenger were ejected from their seats and fell to their deaths. • Quimby, however, wasn’t the world's first woman to receive a pilot’s license. That honor belongs to French Baroness Madame Raymonde de Laroche, a gifted engineer who earned that distinction in March, 1910. She took honors for a non-stop flight of four hours, followed by a women’s altitude record of 15,700 feet. With hopes of becoming the first female test pilot, she was piloting an experimental aircraft when it crashed on its landing approach, tragically killing the 36-year-old aviation pioneer. ⁫

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