The Club That No One Wants to Join

“Remember when it was impossible to get toilet paper?” 

I was sitting around the lunch table with my coworkers, and the conversation had turned to the early days of the COVID pandemic. As teachers, everyone had a unique story about how they were all of a sudden working remotely, managing their own families behind the scenes, while trying to teach a class of elementary students online.

Words Matter

Words matter.

The problem is that most people don’t really know what to say.

When I got diagnosed with Stage 2 breast cancer at age 35, I quickly learned that when people are at a loss for words, they revert to the old clichés.