I feel a little bit like the Burgess Meredith character Henry Bemis in The Twilight Zone episode “Time Enough at Last.” In that episode, Bemis, an avid reader, finally has time to read to his heart’s content when he – and the local library – are the lone survivors of a nuclear war. However, just […]
Covid-19
Miracles in the Time of COVID
When my daughter was fifteen months old, we survived a plane crash. Doctors and the media called her the miracle baby. Airlines advise parents to hold children her age in their laps, even though they know that as far as science is concerned, there is not a way to prevent a lap-sitting baby from becoming […]
Life and Love during Coronavirus
It seems incredible to me that just 10 days ago from the day I am writing this, I was urging my partner to stick to his plans of traveling to Texas to visit his son at Shepherd Air Force Base because, I figured, it’d be the last window to do so. I was secretly still […]
Inconvenience Yourself to Save Lives
I will be 39 in April. I’m a mother of a toddler, I’m a wife, an educator, writer, visual artist. I vote. I’m passionate about civil rights and the welfare of others. Though, honestly, I never feel like I’m doing any good in this world, that many times I feel like a cog in a […]
