by Eddie McPuppers as told to B. Lynn Goodwin Mommy and Daddy cover their mouths and noses with black masks. Is everyone a bandit now? If you’re wearing a bandit mask, are you going to steal me? Should I bite you in self- defense? Mommy and Daddy don’t have people over anymore. Not that they […]
To write a few words about an ordinary day in my life doesn’t seem like too big of a task and yet now, as never before in the span of my lifetime, there are no ordinary days. Yesterday I paused at the door to a coffee shop before I entered—it was to be the first […]
“Wash your hands, little lady!” “I already washed them a little while ago. Why should I wash them again?” “You’ve touched countless things since then; your hands are dirty.” “But Grammy,” I turned my hands over, closely examining them. “They don’t look dirty!” “Yes, they are! The kind of dirt I’m talking about is invisible; […]
Almost three weeks have passed since we first saw evidence of the coronavirus—people frantically hoarding toilet paper, paper towels, disinfectants, rubbing alcohol, and hand sanitizer. The next week, we watched shelves being emptied of food essentials such as eggs, bread, cereal, crackers, cheese, peanut butter, meat, bottled water, juice, etc. “What’s happening?!*” Bill and I […]
