scene from George Romero’s “Night of the Living Dead”

The pandemic years have left us numb

Lynne Thompson

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These last two years have been so strange and difficult. Some of us lost our jobs. Others got ill and recovered, but have long-term Covid symptoms. Still others lost loved ones. I myself lost a friend I had had for my whole adult life and was not allowed to attend his funeral. Even worse, I hadn’t been notified of his death (I used to keep in touch with his sister, who would have told me, but she herself had passed away a few…

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Lynne Thompson

I always wrote (first poem at 6 years old). Tech writer by trade. I have a podcast The Storied Human: see my linktree — https://linktr.ee/StoriedHuman