What the pandemic has done to me

Today is my one-year anniversary in quarantine.
One year ago today I taught my last in-person class at The University of Alabama, packed my laptop and some midterms and went home. I’ve left since then only to walk each day or pick up drive-up groceries. My 18-year-old daughter has been home with me.
Gone are the “Let’s have a quarantini!” sad, virtual happy-hour jokes of the early…