It’s been five months since the coronavirus pandemic hit the country, shutting down schools and businesses and sending us to our homes like children being sent to their rooms to think about what they’ve done. There is nothing good about COVID-19, but I’d be lying if I said the stay-home situation didn’t come with aContinue reading “Reading During the Pandemic”
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The Beauty of Learning
It’s fun watching learning occur. My parents have a new kitten. She wandered into their yard, a tiny, scrappy, smart little thing, barely big enough to be away from her mother but somehow surviving on her own. They fed her and sweet-talked her from afar until she got curious enough to come inside the house.Continue reading “The Beauty of Learning”
The Long and Short of It: A Pandemic Poem
The Long and Short of It I used to get my hair cut twice a year— grow it long, cut it short, grow it long, cut it short. Each trip to the salon wrapped neatly inside an hour, the look I left with as final as the severing of that first big chop. Home haircutsContinue reading “The Long and Short of It: A Pandemic Poem”
Carie Juettner 