March 13, 2020 is the date that I associate with the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic. I know that it had been brewing months prior, but it wasn’t until that date that I can say it began to affect me personally. On March 13, my kids and I were in Orlando, Florida to spend a
Just a few weeks shy of the COVID-19 pandemic, I lost my mother. My son, who was a college freshman, received word that he had to move out of his dorm and back into our home. My daughter learned that her junior year of high school would end abruptly, a few months earlier than expected.