Our Roll Call pieces have been voted on and Paula Benge won for the month of September.  Here is her piece.

Paula Benge  – EWC roll call September 2020

150 words

2020, the year that the world tilted off its axle, as if it took a right jab and got stuck seeing stars, with newscasters giving play-by-play.

A million months ago, in January, I fed Polish students Thanksgiving dinner. Two months later, the world run out of toilet paper. It was on tv. I didn’t panic. Historically, humans always had something to use, even before Charmin was trademarked. I kept my chin up. A rookie mistake—in boxing, your chin is down so your brain doesn’t get sloshed from one side to the other after, say, a right jab.

We were on the mat and television was saying stay down. Loved ones were shut out or shut in. Access to haircuts rivalled internet access. Masks didn’t matter—then they did. Life was bizarrely stranger than any fiction. Then, I waved a finger. Not in surrender. The tv perished with one push.