Pandemic Reflections

A Funeral on Pandemic Eve

Was our grief an omen?

Photo by Rhodi Lopez on Unsplash

One year ago this week, I returned from a conference in San Antonio to learn that a dear friend had died. The news shocked me. I hadn’t known that G was diagnosed with cancer six months earlier. Now her funeral was in just a few hours. I had to go. But I’d spent the past week drenching my hands in sanitizer and greeting…