I've always said that I don't cope, I conquer. Social distancing is nothing that new to me (I have Asperger's syndrome), but it usually involves other people keeping their distance from me. I guess I've always been a bit too strange for most. I keep to my usual...

I am at home with my husband and our two dogs, and we are doing okay, really. I have embraced Zoom and the fact that it lets me talk to friends all over the country. We play a lot of board games with friends (Gloomhaven, anyone?) and we've figured out how to do it...

I have used this time to argue with my cat, clean under the refrigerator, and catch up on terrible movies. Lately I’ve been watching horror movies made in the Philippines.Notably the John Ashley ones. The creatures are horrible, the music relentlessly dramatic, and...

I don't think the children will remember the two cancelled birthday parties in March. (We intend to make those up whenever we can this year.) I hope that we remember instead the wonderful times we've had since I was able to work from home. We feel blessed that I can...

I was in the hospital with COVID-19 for 12 days. I was isolated and only saw nurses a few times a day because they had to limit contact with COVID-19 patients. They wore gear to protect themselves from the spread of the virus. The CT scan showed that the spread of the...

My daughter and her family live in California and, most likely, we won't be seeing them for a while, so they set up a Zoom connection with us. Saturday evening we colored Easter eggs with our 4 year old grandson. You may wonder how this worked. He had several cooked...

Music has helped me through some difficult times. Under normal circumstances, I always prefer to perform and see fellow musicians play live — a shared experience in a communal space — but with the new restrictions on social gatherings, I knew that one of the things I...