by integrativeasheville | Oct 27, 2020 | Coronavirus Stories
It’s been about 24 hours since the management of the building where I live told us that Covid is in our building. We are 14 stories of about 120 elders, most of us especially susceptible to coronavirus. So far only one person has tested positive and that person,...
by integrativeasheville | Oct 7, 2020 | Coronavirus Stories
It was the best of times, it was the worst of times, it was the age of wisdom, it was the age of foolishness, it was the epoch of belief, it was the epoch of incredulity, it was the season of Light, it was the season of Darkness, it was the spring of hope, it was the...
by integrativeasheville | Aug 19, 2020 | Coronavirus Stories
Having no family of any kind, living alone, my calendar is a place I visit regularly in joyful anticipation of contact with other people. I’m typically very self-sufficient, but during these days, weeks, and months of prolonged isolation (with no end in sight) I...
by integrativeasheville | Jun 22, 2020 | Coronavirus Stories
For two days prior to March 23 (the day I began a fever) I was not feeling well. I was fatigued, felt a sore throat approaching and my sinuses were running, but after all pollen season had begun so I didn’t think much about it. Om March 23 I woke up with a...
by integrativeasheville | Jun 4, 2020 | Coronavirus Stories, News
Sly operator who do you think you are invading our borders coming like a thief in the night upending our lives sending chills up and down our spine? Catlike and indiscriminate in your “kills” you charmed us, harmed us took our young and old sullied our...
by integrativeasheville | Jun 4, 2020 | Coronavirus Stories, News
I live smack dab downtown – right across from the Grove Arcade, right in the path of all that is going on. For the past four nights, I have fallen asleep to the sound of flashbangs, firecrackers, shouting, chanting, and police sirens. Sometimes marchers pass my...
by integrativeasheville | Jun 4, 2020 | Coronavirus Stories, News
Since the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic and the more recent social unrest, my story feels like a confusing mixture of worry, joy, sadness, fear, and gratitude. Life certainly looks different than it used to. I do not see my co-workers anymore as we are working...
