Letters to the Moon....

Hello everyone, I am writing from the comfort of my home, a rarity these days. However, for the foreseeable future, it is the new normal. I am on day ten of a new social construct in society- social distancing.  Let me go back and recount the last two weeks. I believe it was Monday March 9 when one of the school districts in Indianapolis was closing for three weeks to prevent the spread of the virus. Two days later, Wednesday March 11, my library branch  had a two hour meeting about COVID19, the corona virus. Thursday March 12 the largest school district in Indianapolis closed to prevent the virus. The next day, Friday March 13, my library announced that it would be closing for three weeks, a preventative measure which could be extended if need be. The last day the library was open was Saturday, March 14.  On that Saturday I decided to go out and get some groceries. I also went to my favorite pizza place and got a pizza. It’s a small, local restaurant, with no de...

"Why the moon?!?" a friend asked me the other day. "Why did you decide to name your business, La Luna Press, after the moon?" I gave him the honest answer: "Once upon a time, I fell in love with a man who was in love with the moon. A few months later, I left the relationship, but kept the moon."  The rest, as they say, is history. From then on, the moon has never left my life. The moon has been featured in the news of late. Have you heard? The Earth now has a second moon! It was once an asteroid that got into our gravitational pull and entered  the Earth's orbit. It's called: " 2020 CD-3" "2020 CD-3 was discovered on February 15 by astronomers at the Catalina Sky Survey, based in Tucson, Arizona. More than 30 observations were made of the object by February 17, according to asteroid-and comet-hunter Kacper Wierzchos, one of its discoverers along with astronomer Theodore Pruyne. Those observations were needed to refine an o...