faced a racial reckoning and Covid ravaged the world, Bee found herself at an unfamiliar crossroads. I’m not sure I have it down yet, but he’s absolutely made me a better person.”Īs the U.S. He’s a huge (literally and figuratively) addition to my life and has changed the way I manage my time and energy. Po is the definition of ‘a handful,’ but I love him and he brings so much joy to everyone he meets. Only there were literally no dogs to adopt, so I ended up getting my dream dog-but as a puppy. I decided to finally get a dog, figuring 1.5 years was enough time for us to bond and work out the kinks. “Unlike pretty much everyone I knew, I thought it would be at least a year-and-a-half until we were ‘normal’ again. Thinking about the pandemic and her life in the long term, Bee said she made some big changes. Added to that, some of my dearest friends are doctors and my worry for them was through the roof.” I was in a new city, still finding my bearings and suddenly, all the things you could do or were used to doing were gone. “I’d moved to New England a few months before lockdown started. Like so many people, the pandemic changed Bee’s life. Feels like we’re all finally emerging and feeling the sun on our skin again.” “Everything normal stopped, and so many added stressors-personal, social, political, etc.-kicked into high gear. “It was like going underground to live in a bunker,” she recalled.
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