Is This Real Life?

Cynthia Herron Snippets of Life 6 Comments

COVID-19. Pandemic. Sheltering-in-place. Is this real life or will we wake up soon? No longer does this feel like the twenty-first century. Our “new normal” has shifted and today seems more like a bizarre movie script with enough twists and turns to surprise (and dare I say delight?) even the hard to impress film critic. (Click-to-Tweet) Except COVID-19 isn’t a …

I’ve Battened Down the Hatches. Now What?

Cynthia Herron Snippets of Life 2 Comments

When news reports of the coronavirus initially surfaced, I couldn’t conceive how widespread this disease would become. I thought it was another flu-like illness that could be bad, but would eventually run its course. Now we know that early assumptions were wrong. Because COVID-19 is something we’ve never seen before, aspects of it remain a mystery. It’s clear that this …