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Some Good, Some Bad

Posted on August 19, 2021August 19, 2021 by Rob Rinderman

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…

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Ramblings “What I Learned During CoVid19”

Posted on August 3, 2021August 7, 2021 by Bernard H. Jackson

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…

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What’s It All About?

Posted on August 3, 2021August 7, 2021 by Kathleen Alfiero

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…

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What I learned During the Pandemic? How to Pivot

Posted on August 3, 2021August 11, 2021 by Gregory Bradley

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…

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Inspiration During Isolation

Posted on August 1, 2021August 13, 2021 by Eve Glover

By Eve Glover I am a writer, and during the height of the pandemic, some of the lifestyle magazines I contributed to and was looking forward to writing for lost all of their advertising money and are sadly no longer being published. I started focusing my attention instead on newspapers that were still onboarding writers,…

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Love in the Time of Covid

Posted on July 24, 2021August 11, 2021 by Ric Dragon

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…

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Lessons learned during the Pandemic

Posted on July 19, 2021August 11, 2021 by Eric Jeffrey Kaufman

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…

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The Time of Covid – The Pandemic

Posted on July 10, 2021August 11, 2021 by Sharna Striar

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…

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Learned during the Pandemic

Posted on July 8, 2021August 11, 2021 by Kathleen Gati

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,…

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Pivot

Posted on July 7, 2021August 11, 2021 by Ravi Hutheesing

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…

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