I Can’t Be Funny …because of the tears

Trent Fox
1 min readMay 3, 2022

I’’m sorry, but I just can’t write a funny story today. I started the day responding to all the kind folks who follow me, read my stories and hopefully laugh.

Then I ran across a story about a surgeon in Mariupol, Ukraine. Then another about a woman escaping Mariupol with her pregnant sister. Then another one and another one and another one. I had to stop because I could not see the screen any more.

I have followed this horrible tragedy since Feb 24. I read, watch news, click on articles with my… iPad. But these stories on Medium today…

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Trent Fox

I am retired and at age 72 I am writing about growing up in the South and living in CA. Also about 30 years performing stand-up comedy. Trentfox59@gmail.com