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“The Ones Who Love Us Never Really Leave Us”: Making Sense of Mortality

As of Wednesday, Apr. 8, we have hit 12,000 coronavirus deaths in the United States. And there’s an unfortunately decent chance that we will have 120,000-plus deaths from the virus this year.

The odds are high that most people in the country will know someone who succumbed to the virus by the time it has run its course. Now seems like the season for contemplating mortality and thinking specifically about the best way to remember those who one day will no longer be with us.

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Top Five American Novels of All Time

As I write this, my daily life has been radically altered by the coronavirus pandemic of 2020. (And let’s hope it won’t be necessary in the future for me to write something like “the outbreak of 2022” or “the contagion of 2025.”)

As a sports writer, I have much less to cover now that most sports events on the planet have been postponed or canceled, so it’s an excellent time to catch up on my reading.

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