An apt definition from Merriam Webster for 2020:

“Doomscrolling and doomsurfing are new terms referring to the tendency to continue to surf or scroll through bad news, even though that news is saddening, disheartening, or depressing. Many people are finding themselves reading continuously bad news about COVID-19 without the ability to stop or step back.”

Each morning, I read my email, then the Globe & Mail, the New York Times, Twitter, Instagram and Facebook. Some days, the news is better than the day before. Not often. Then, just when you think it’s safe to stray from relatively neutral editorials and read what’s classified as ‘news’, something else outrageous happens.

Instead of blistering the keyboard as I expiate my rage at so many lives lost in the craziness bombarding us on TV and in social media, I’m retreating into levity.

In a while, I’ll strike out on my new and improved voyage of writing discovery.

  • Ever since the barber cut my hair into a boy style