Andrea Gregory 4/14/20 Andrea Gregory 4/14/20

In Stillness

I want to stop having MS so I can just be afraid of the virus like everyone else.

Dan Hunter 4/14/20 Dan Hunter 4/14/20

Viral Education

Online education is, at best, a parachute until teachers and students can return to the classroom.

Julia Juster 4/14/20 Julia Juster 4/14/20

A Teacher’s View

Five weeks ago we sealed the school building, and along with it my excuses.

Kai Maristed 4/14/20 Kai Maristed 4/14/20

“Quand les Cartes Postales se Croisent” (When Postcards Cross)

Under these imaginative circumstances I can move around Paris with impunity, unlike my friends and neighbors.

Megan Marshall 4/14/20 Megan Marshall 4/14/20

Chalk Talk

The sidewalk was there before Covid-19, and it’s still here today, as solid as anything might feel to a kid right now.

Askold Melnyczuk 4/14/20 Askold Melnyczuk 4/14/20

“After the First Death, There is No Other”

Syria and its millions of refugees rarely make the news these days.

Thomas O’Grady 4/14/20 Thomas O’Grady 4/14/20

The Spuds Will Bloom in Baile Beag

There’s a scene in Brian Friel’s iconic play Translations (1980) that seems to me to speak to our current moment.

Douglas Penick 4/14/20 Douglas Penick 4/14/20

A Gathering Quiet

Silence is now, for the moment anyhow, pervasive. It is a presence itself.

Tomasz Pudlocki 4/14/20 Tomasz Pudlocki 4/14/20

Unfunny April Fools’ Day in Poland

Apparently the Polish PM’s repeated mantras are not enough anymore.

Thaila Ramanujam 4/14/20 Thaila Ramanujam 4/14/20

Self-Help in the Time of Corona

No disease or infection is an “enemy” — for that very reason, we never become soldiers.

Shuchi Saraswat 4/14/20 Shuchi Saraswat 4/14/20

Coronaland

When we emerge from this great pause, how will we begin?

Tony Schwalm 4/14/20 Tony Schwalm 4/14/20

It’s Our Turn

How many N95 masks would $4.5 billion buy? Roughly 2.5 billion. The aircraft carrier sits in Guam, dead in the water.

Lloyd Schwartz 4/14/20 Lloyd Schwartz 4/14/20

A Music Critic in Quarantine

I haven’t felt much like listening to music, and it’s not because I don’t love music any more.

Huma Sheikh 4/14/20 Huma Sheikh 4/14/20

Protests Under Cover

At the moment, a virus which doesn’t distinguish Muslims or Hindus has provided me with the cover I need.

Mosab Abu Toha 4/14/20 Mosab Abu Toha 4/14/20

We Are All Gazans Now . . . Sort Of

Enforced social distancing and isolation are something my family and I have endured most of our lives.

Christie Towers 4/14/20 Christie Towers 4/14/20

Downtown Crossing, Easter 2020

1 in 3 of the unhoused population of Boston have tested positive. We offer handmade masks, hand sanitizer, symptom screening, and calls to medical teams.