For the last year, I have been working as a contact tracer. This is not my life’s passion, it was just a stop-gap job to transition from selling my business. I wanted a job and the pandemic was on in full force so it worked out. About ten months into…

When I was a kid, my sisters and I used to take the bus up to my grandparents’ apartment on the north side of Chicago. They lived in a 41-story apartment building overlooking Lake Michigan. The 151 bus let us off at Goethe street. …

Yesterday while I was working I thought to myself, “I could do this all day long!” And that’s a good thing because that was the plan. …

I’ve heard more about ventilators in the past two years than in my fifty-plus years of living. At the beginning of COVID, I bought an oximeter because I was struggling to take deep breaths. …

When I look outside it is dark almost all the time. And raining. It will be like this for months here in the Northwest where I live. Every year I wonder how I can possibly endure this weather, and every year I do it. These past few years the restrictions…

I watched The Lost Daughter on Netflix last week and I haven’t stopped thinking about it.

You don’t have to be a mother to be moved by it, but if you are a mother, it cuts to the core. The protagonist, Leda, who is played by Olivia Coleman is a…

I wept twice on New Year’s Eve. I wept for the future — not for myself — I have lived a good long life. I cried for my daughter, Lucia, and her friends. They are juniors in high school, at an important crossroads in their lives. …

At the beginning of COVID my daughter Lucia quit piano. After two zoom lessons, she chucked it. Lucia was never a classical pianist. Her teacher taught her to play songs that she wanted to play. That meant that our house was filled with John Legend, Bruno Mars, Adele, Katy Perry…