Quarantine
The world got sick. It seems a whirlwind of change put us where we are today, and at the same time the month of March felt more like three years. There were rumblings in what little news we keep up with, maybe starting back in February. We discussed it a little at work, the thought of maybe having to offer only online courses. Life in a bubble or whatever it was, I took none of it seriously. The week of March 8th was scaring us all a little, as the time change, a full moon, and Friday the 13th all fell on the same week. We laughed over that. On Friday the 13th, they closed schools for two weeks. And over the next two weeks, and all the weeks that followed, we watched wide-eyed and slack-jawed as the virus tore through an America that had been ordered to drop everything. Education was indeed taken online for the remainder of the year. No sports. At all. Retail stores and restaurants closed, except for those who offered curbside pickup or delivery. Churches empty. Every entertainmen...