Foolish One Day/Wise the Next

Kimberly Garts Crum
ILLUMINATION
Published in
8 min readFeb 6, 2021

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Photo by Brett Jordan on Unsplash

“The Internet is the tree of knowledge of good and evil. To avoid temptation, one must consider the apple carefully before taking a bite .” ~The author~

On an autumn afternoon during the coronavirus pandemic, I became host to a virus — the cyber-kind. My Amazon account was hacked, and my iPhone phished, in an artfully executed scam ten days after my sixty-fifth birthday. You might suspect my age made me an easy

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Kimberly Garts Crum
ILLUMINATION

Essayist. Editor. Teacher. Seeker. Owns Shape & Flow Writing Instruction. Co-edits a Medium publication, LandslideLit(erary), accepting prose and poetry.