• Pandemic 2020

    Thankful

    For those partaking in a traditional Thanksgiving Day dinner tomorrow, let’s hope you don’t have to witness this from the family comedian as they walk maskless through the door: “Hellooo, I brought yams. Or maybe the plague.” Better to stay home in your own bubble. As my friend Dinah said this morning during our writers group Zoom, think of the last Thursday in November 2020 this way: “It’s just a meal.” She knows of what she speaks, after losing her husband, the ever-sweet William, to COVID-19 in April. Gone too soon like so many others who have been ravaged by this deadly virus. And she was sick with it, too.…