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RearrangementsThing1 returned home from college today, saddled with the knowledge that he won’t be going back until September. He’s in the same boat as millions of other college kids around the country who are rearranging their futures right now. Thing1 has spent the past few years rearranging his future thanks to his chronic illness, but… Continue reading Rearranging Life
Thing1 texted today that is spring break return this weekend will be the beginning of an extended stay as his schoolmoves to dance learning to respond to this virus that the world health organization now calls a pandemic. The University, like so many other organizations, is recommending “social distancing“. I often think we have too… Continue reading Get Closer
Sometime last weekend Corona arrived in southwestern Vermont. The place where nothing ever happens, suddenly had something happen that’s happening everywhere. Our school and most of the schools around here are taking common sense precautions and outlining new policies. There is talk of some people being quarantined as a precaution. And, even though most of… Continue reading I Got This
A few weeks before exams, Thing1's school sends around a mailer that lets parents fill out a greeting card and select an assortment of "healthy" candies and snack foods to get through the rigors of studying and testing. Most of the letters from Thing1's college are pleas for money for one reason or another, but… Continue reading Care in the Age of Corona
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