I’m a teacher and obviously I want to get back to my classroom. A couple days before our closure the kids were buzzing about it and how great it would be. I lectured them that if we did close it wouldn’t be a vacation, scary disease, people die, sitting at home would become torture, etc. One kid who is usually sassy…

im in a similar sitch. My mom is also in assisted living and I’ve taken her out for lunch every weekend for almost 3 years. Until now. I can still make very short visits, but she cant go out. Even in a nice home, it’s boring for her.

I want to hug my mom. She’s 85 and will probably be 86 before I get to do so -- her birthday’s in May. Her assisted living facility is locked down and no visitors have been permitted since March 8. Normally I see her every Saturday so this has been difficult for both of us. 

Being able to see and hug my son, daughter-in-law and two grandkids. I am 62, have stage iv cancer and am constantly undergoing treatment, so “at risk” and isolating. I am used to living my life only three months at a time and not being able to make plans (that’s the time between each scan).

I assume he got a test because there are actual political and power-transfer implications.

The correspondents’ dinner’s primary purpose is a fundraiser for journalism scholarships. I guess you have to be a journalist to know that.

I’ve said it before, but it bears repeating. I am convinced we are where we are right now because of his inability to shrug off being the butt of a joke. After the year Obama mocked him in front of everyone at the dinner the petty little man made it his mission to exact revenge on Obama. We’re all just collateral…

My parents discovered I was gay at the end of my senior year of high school, right before graduation. My father beat me nearly unconscious and I literally ran out of the house with only the clothes I was wearing. I snuck back in twice to get some things, but it barely amounted to a suitcase’s worth of stuff.

I stayed…

N.J. legislators have proposed a law that would ban people from returning the stuff they hoarded during emergencies.

However, reports about Grégoire Trudeau’s illness mobilized an entire country to take better care of itself...

You started with “camping is great” then proceeded to write something that could pass as fan fiction for the first season of The Terror.

He’s definitely hotter than Chris Pratt, at minimum.

And imagine the nightmare of screening. I’m a very healthy but admittedly overweight 64 but how do they know that I’m healthy? Pity the poor person who’s got to decide who to let in.

Add this too. I was a Head Start teacher for two years, and spent just as much out of pocket as I did when I was a kindergarten teacher, but I didn’t get the tax breaks on my out-of-pocket spending that I did as a K teacher. Imagine my surprise that first year when I slid over my folder of receipts in chrono order,…

Thanks- it’s 1 degree today with 40 mph wind but I think it’ll improve tomorrow so I can do that!

You can have my ration.

If it’s reeeeeally stuff you won’t eat, maybe consider donating a few items to local food banks or meals-on-wheels type programs?

That is my type of soup but there’s been a sustained shortage of a few types of lentils this season before all of this. I haven’t seen red ones in months (granted, I haven’t been looking every day or anything but I have wanted to make soup a few times since the beginning of the year and looked in a few stores). I’m…

Oh my god, I’m so sorry. And I’m sorry for your loss, and for all the pain you and your kids must have gone through, and the pain you’re still feeling. Everything that you did for your husband in his final days— all those sleepless nights, all the worrying, the scheduling and rearranging and physical labor to ensure hi…

If it’s reeeeeally stuff you won’t eat, maybe consider donating a few items to local food banks or meals-on-wheels type programs? I know a lot of these are struggling with the demand of seniors staying at home and others who are frequently left out of the whole pandemic convo.