Starting in June 2020, I began looking forward to New Year’s Eve. When New Year’s Eve finally arrived, our family anxiously waited for the ball to drop—or rather, leisurely descend—from Times Square. Typically, this moment is disappointingly dull; there have even been a few occasions when we’ve watched a previous New Year’s celebration...
Eight months. That’s how long it’s been since COVID-19 erupted on the global stage and disrupted our lives. Do you remember when the immensity of the virus and its impact became real to you? For me, it was around the time when I heard COVID-19 compared to a blizzard, winter, and ice age. Blizzard...
If you’re like me, you may have had a few more hours at home in 2020 than what you had anticipated at the start of the year. With travel plans cancelled and major events postponed, our family found that we suddenly had more time in the evenings for game nights and walks in the...