If Tolstoy were alive in 2020, maybe he would write that every stressed-out pandemic family is stressed out in its own way. My stress has been learning how to adjust to a new family in a time when everything is changing. And yet others are experiencing far harder family struggles. It’s mid-March, 2020. COVID-19 is
Read MoreI remember reading the email from my sons’ school like it was yesterday. On March 11, 2020, we received notice that all in-person instruction would be suspended indefinitely. Due to COVID-19, all students would transition to a virtual learning format. My immediate thoughts focused my 9-year-old son who was in 3rd grade, who two years
Read MoreThe City of Carmel in the state of Indiana has seen many changes that have taken affect on itself as the city continues with development projects that were in the works before the pandemic and during. The city has made many interesting changes to the overall facade of how the mayor and the city council
Read MoreWhen looking at the past year and a half in lockdown, it is easy to say everyone’s experiences were similar—all were required to be on lockdown at home, masks were mandatory in public, and any travel or signs of symptoms of the infection were met with obligatory days of self-quarantine. However, when looking at the
Read MoreAs I look out the window of my back porch I hear the road buzzing with cars. It’s 5:45pm – people are going home from work. It almost appears that traffic is heavier than it was before COVID-19. We are over a year into a global pandemic that has taken countless lives… but we have
Read MoreRegretting having left my bandana at home, I wiped the sweat off of my face with the back of my sweaty hand, although it did not alleviate any of the sweat dripping into my eyes. The sun beat down through the clouds for the first time that morning which failed to dry out the humidity
Read More“How does it feel to be a white woman running the Martin Luther King Jr Community Center during a racial uprising in the middle of a pandemic?” she asked. When my mental health therapist posed this question to me in July 2020 through the computer screen, I laughed out loud, and then realized she was
Read MoreI think it safe to say that Covid-19 has shaped the way we interact and think about our day-to-day activities. Even though Covid-19 had not affected everyone the same, each person has experienced the changes of Covid-19 in their environments. For some neighborhoods the change is merely making sure that residents are socially distancing while
Read MoreAnxiety. For some of us, it is something that may happen in the most extreme circumstances under severe stress and pressure. For others, it is a way of life. Living with severe anxiety is not something that you would see someone bragging about, yet there is a large portion of individuals who have experienced severe
Read MoreFlashback to March 12, 2020, reading an email from President McRobbie about campus closing while surrounded by all of my friends in the Math Assistance Center and a trip to Gatlinburg planned for Spring break the next weekend. I never would have thought this is what life in college would look like. We all expected
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