For ALL My Readers: A Call for your "COVIDemic" Stories

This might be a blog for fans of figure skating that has recently morphed into a blog for fans of The Good Doctor… but times are completely different right now, so I want to do something completely different too.

Here’s my idea: I want to devote a post to YOUR stories. Or two posts, or three, or several, I don’t know, it all depends on you guys. Your stories right now might be about living in quarantine, about “essential working” through quarantine, or about friends or family or neighbors who are ill (with COVID-19 or otherwise). You might live in the U.S.; you might live elsewhere. You might be hunkered down with people you don’t usually see this much; you might be living alone. You might be living your best life; you might be clawing from day to day… or (most likely) something in between.

And, you might not want to write about it where others can read about it.

But if you DO… maybe you’d consider sharing it here. It’s a good compromise between keeping it to yourself and throwing it to the universe… I don’t get a ton of traffic 😊

Here are three questions I’d like you to keep in mind if you choose to send something:

           1)     What’s going on where YOU live? Is your local population under a stay-at-home order? Are public places aside from “the essentials” opening back up yet? How much has changed over the course of the pandemic thus far?

           2)    What’s changed for YOU personally? Have you been ill? Do you know other people who have been ill? If so, how are you/they doing now? Are you still working? If so, is it “in-house” or does it require transportation? Either way…how’s it going?

            3)    What do you feel YOU’VE learned during this time—about yourself, about those near and dear to you, about people in general—that you think is most important to remember?

EMAIL me at KLawrence997-at-gmail-dot-com, and please put “My COVIDemic Story” in the subject line. Let me know if you’re OK with your name/username/twitter handle being attached to your writing—it’s PERFECTLY FINE if you prefer anonymity for any reason.

I reserve the right to edit the submissions for proofreading, sensitive content, and (possibly) brevity, depending on how many readers I hear from.

Please try to get your personal accounts to me by FRIDAY, MAY 15^th.

I’ve always found writing to be one of the most therapeutic things I can do for myself… with reading and relating to others’ writing as a close second.

Maybe some of you do, too. Let’s see what happens.

Peace,

Kelli