Today marks the first full week that my kids’ schools are closed due to the Coronavirus and that I’m working from home. Each day I turn on the TV and the news is worse. I’ve written about the power of writing in a journal and how it can be like a time capsule.

Today the entire state of California has gone into lockdown. The governor has asked all Californians to stay at home and has banned gatherings. The order affects 40 million people. In Pennsylvania, Governor Wolf has ordered that all businesses that are not “life-sustaining” to shutdown.