Category: Covid Stories

The last ~18 months (dating back to March 2020) have been difficult times for pretty much everyone, with so many changes and challenges affecting our daily lives, not to mention the pace at which these are being reported to us via social and traditional media. It feels to me like a large wedge has been drawn…

The Coronavirus 2020 global quarantine experience has taught me…  how to see a smile in a masked person’s eyes,  there can be greener grasses and bluer skies,  more chipmunks run and play, and more birds chirp and fly,  and politicians have a new subject area, in which to express their lies,  and as powerful as…

Sometimes my positive attitude is annoying to others. And, being human, there are times that I simply can’t find my positive outlook. However, most of the time, my family and friends appreciate that I know that there are always opportunities in whatever comes our way. The pandemic of 2020 (and beyond, apparently) has taught me…

By Gregory Bradley Right before the pandemic hit, I was scheduled to get on a plane to Portland to start a big training contract I had won.  Once the pandemic shut everything down, I asked myself – “What am I going to do now? I sat in my quiet back yard in Queens and thought…

By Ric Dragon It was eerie, all the tables in my favorite cafe in the city were normally filled. There was only a scattering of people. The entire city felt more quiet – and if you know Bogotá, the capital of Colombia, you would have shared my suspicion that something was amiss. Well, I understood…

By Eric Jeffrey Kaufman I remember March 10, 2020, as the last day of going to my LA Fitness gym and that March 17, 2020, was the date Austin, Texas officially sheltered in place to deal with the Pandemic. Being an introspective sort, and regular meditator, I knew in my heart that I was not…

By Sharna Striar It was March 17, 2020. New York City was bracing for a wave of pandemic victims. An unknown virus had invaded the world and New York, a melting pot of the universe, was falling prey. I was trying to determine where I would hide from its tentacles. Advised by friends I took…

by Kathleen Gati What I learned during the pandemic: -It’s okay not to go to the movies every Friday night and eat a bucket of popcorn, or to go out to eat. Hubby was even inspired to cook a wonderful dinner for my birthday and New Year’s, a first in 14 years! And a by-product,…

by Ravi Hutheesing The following is an excerpt from Chapter 1 of my book, PIVOT: Empowering Students Today to Succeed in an Unpredictable Tomorrow. I wrote the entire work during the beginning stages of the pandemic, and it was published in November of 2020, just before the vaccine rollout began globally. These words not only…

Here I sit, at age 85, in my prime, discovering things about myself that I’d forgotten about. I have the Pandemic to thank for that, giving me time to reminisce . My parents used to say, “Susie, go to your room”. Then in 2020 our caring scientists said to us, “People, stay in your homes…