We are all learning a lesson in the value of delaying gratification in this year of COVID. This ability could save all our lives.

Forty-eight hours is a long time to wait if you might possibly have a life-threatening illness. It was also a long time to think.

Life had a calm empty-nest rhythm. Then, this spring, everything changed. We had not planned to shelter together with our grown children....

We live in a quarantined area, and have been instructed to stay home as much as possible. I have never been so grateful to live in a...