To keep herself busy and earn some additional income, Potkins found a commercial kitchen on the southside where she could prepare food for catering.
“I did a Mother’s Day Isolation Brunch and a Father’s Day Isolation Brunch and started preparing freezer meals.” Customers pre-ordered the brunches and Potkins delivered the food to their homes.
Irwin would like to see changes in our systems. Covid has highlighted the failures of our systems and institutions. “I talked in the legislature early on, saying that the biggest mistake would be if we come out of the pandemic unchanged.”
An accountant, Fowler quit her job to stay home with the children during the pandemic. They took long walks in the wind, rain, and sun, picking sage and wildflowers. They learned about the healing properties of plants. They watched the complicated relationships and lives of the animals they shared their yard with, such as ground squirrels, raccoons, woodpeckers, hummingbirds, yellow finches, and robins.
Blakeman applied to become a foster parent for a basset hound rescue. When the couple met Carl, Blakeman said, “We thought he was pretty adorable and enthusiastic. I fell for him right away. He’s so bouncy and enthusiastic.”