Joints for Jabs - A Pandemic Story about My Mom, Part 1

It’s hard to put this experience into words. My mom’s pandemic experience… my experience being separated from her for almost twenty months now… When I moved from NYC to Tasmania, I was under the impression that I would be back and forth frequently. Once my mom retired, she spent months at a time here. Australia’s borders are still closed and parents are not considered immediate family under the exemptions.

This was never the plan. It of course was never anyone’s plan, but here we are. In many ways, we are extremely fortunate. We are lucky to be healthy, and lucky to be in the positions we are in. The luck of me living in Tasmania for all of this is a completely different story.

This story is part one of Joints for Jabs, a pandemic story about my mom.