COLUMNS ON COVID-19

A Small Business Rises Out of the Ashes (the incredible story of the man whose Melrose store was burned to the ground)

How I Spent My Summer Vacation (and the joys of being a corn farmer)

The Worst Words an Educated Woman Can Say (and I said them)

I’m Not Cut Out for This (I’m in quarantine with two toddler boys. Where’s the mop and wine?)

Days of Our [Pandemic] Lives (satirical scenarios of couples who probably should separate)

It’s Time for COVID-19 Nursery Rhymes (There was an old woman who lived in a shoe/And lost her mind/Trying to home-school her children/On Zoom)

In a Pandemic, I’m Pretending It’s 1985 (the time I escaped reality through Good Housekeeping’s 1985 Christmas issue)

The Day I Got Tested for COVID-19 (nothing novel about it now)

Planning to Send Your Kids to School This Fall? It’s Complicated (and any way you dissect it, painful)

In Iran, Will God Stop Coronavirus? (and what one cleric suggested applying to our posteriors)

The Spring We Were Afraid of Everything (including the purportedly plague-infested Amazon package)

To Immigrant Families, Cancelled Graduations Are No Small Loss (especially if you’re the first to earn that degree)

Can 2020 Still Be Redeemed? (it depends on your candidate)

Coronavirus is Becoming Grounds for Divorce (save the silent treatment for when the pandemic ends)

The Coronavirus Outbreak is a Nightmare for Touchy Persians (saying goodbye to those kisses on the cheek)

As a Refugee, the Coronavirus Triggers my PTSD (especially when the canned food runs out)

This Passover Door Opens for Elijah, Not Relatives (and the pain of not having enough guests to beat with scallions)

The Stories the Virus Took From Us (an update on anti-Semitic incidents that were overshadowed by COVID-19)