Me Time for Two
From Chicken Soup for the Soul: My Hilarious, Heroic, Human Dog
By Bonita Jewel

When the world is at its dismal, dullest or darkest, your dog will insist on his walk—and cheer you back to sanity.
~Peter Gray

I had already been facing a few problems before COVID-19 came along. Even before March of 2020, my freelance editing work had dwindled down to virtually nothing. Without warning, the work-from-home career I had built over the past ten years had vanished. I still worked part-time at my kids’ school, however, so matters weren’t desperate... yet.

By the middle of March, though, the school closed for the rest of the academic year. Now I had no job, plus I had three kids home full-time who needed help with remote learning, and I still needed to do all the household chores and finish the last semester toward my MFA degree. My husband, an in-home healthcare provider, still had work, but my unexpected lack of income weighed heavily on me. (Keep reading)