Friends hugging at sunset

Nearly Normal

For the first time in 15 months, I hugged a friend. It felt nearly normal. For many, before going in for a once normal embrace, it’s becoming routine to first qualify whether or not each has been double vaccinated and then, once this has been…
Man lying on bed

From Anguish to Languish

A couple of weeks ago, an article in the New York Times, written by Adam Grant, suggested that most of us, after over a year of coping with Covid, are languishing. The first time I’d heard this word being used in a Covid context was…