Contemplating the Lost Year
4 min readMar 15, 2021
It’s fair to say that the past year was one giant gutter ball.
My kids’ birthdays, twelve days apart, were the dividing line, in my mind, of our pre- and post-COVID life. On March 6, 2020, my family and I went bowling to celebrate my son’s thirteenth birthday. We live in Minnesota and that was the day the first case of COVID-19 in the state was announced. By March 18, 2020…
