Quarantine Diary: School on Zoom’s out for summer, maybe forever
My family of five popped into our hairdresser’s backyard for a quarantine cut. We got good cuts over good conversation, muffled slightly by our masks.
A J Quinlen
There are 6 articles by A J Quinlen :
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May 2020
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Guest Columnists
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April 2020
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Guest Columnists Quarantine Diary: Pack animals
We’ve watched Memphis’ social distancing “grade” drop down to a D. I think it shows how bad we all are at staying away from each other. On a smaller scale – the me scale – I’ve been finding more and more ways to socially distance … with people.
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Guest Columnists Quarantine diary: My cousin is on the COVID-19 frontlines
When the hospital asked, my cousin was among those who said they’d be comfortable working with patients who tested positive for the virus. Now, some of her coworkers avoid her.
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March 2020
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Guest Columnists Quarantine diary: Zoom, locusts and Stephen King
Great things have come of being home and self-quarantined. For example, I’ve started reading again – reading voraciously. It started when my mom cleaned out the attic a week ago and found a box of my dad’s old books, including Isaac Asimov’s “Foundation” series.
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Guest Columnists Quarantine diary: Kicked off campus
Coronavirus has disrupted some of my friends’ lives far more than it’s unsettled mine. My senior friends won’t get to have graduation. And my international friends have a real dilemma: Should they stay in the States or go home?
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September 2019
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Lakeland Syrian family achieving the American dream in Memphis
The Almasalmas are a family of Syrian refugees building a life in the Memphis area. An example of the American dream, they'd pushed through incredible hardship and loss by the time they arrived in Memphis. Here, they’ve been befriended by a support group of various locals.
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