On Being Quarantined Alone on Mother’s Day
5 min readMay 9, 2020
My Grandma used to tell me how much time she had on her hands — too much, she would say.
She was deep in her 80’s, lived alone and looked forward to Thursdays when the whole family gathered at her home for dinner.
Back then I was teaching middle school full time, married, raising two teenagers and was CEO of a 4 bedroom house in the suburbs.
