The Surprise Quarantine Gift
Life had a calm empty-nest rhythm. Then, this spring, everything changed. We had not planned to shelter together with our grown children. The idea was that my 21-year daughter and her boyfriend would come here for two weeks until their college classes resumed. But classes never did resume; they morphed into virtual classes, and Anna and Ben morphed into semi-permanent residents. My 23-year-old daughter, Julia, certainly did not plan to shelter together. She had moved to Chic