Tag: Covid19
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Age of Omicron
This month, we began our fifth (!) semester under the Covid pandemic. I still remember when, two years ago, the news of Covid19 broke in China during January of 2020. Inside a couple weeks, cases hit 80,000 – a number that seemed phenomenal at the time. I remember thinking, “This could be it. This could…
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Fall Semester Prep
I’ve faced some challenges these past couple weeks that have made it difficult to keep up with online activity. I have a wrist injury that has forced me, temporarily, to work with one hand. This makes certain tasks like typing much more difficult. I’m trying to view this as a character-building experience. Certainly, it’s given…
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Reconnecting
Normally this time of year I would be at my annual Women’s Writing Retreat, more affectionately known as Dollbabies Week. Like so many other spring activities and conferences, that plan was washed away by the tide of Covid-19. My literary colleagues and I have organized a remote edition instead. It won’t be the same, but…
K. R. Gastreich, Author 