By Cole Bradley, for High Ground News Many parents have spent the last 10 months in a near-constant state of fear and anxiety as they…
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Category: COVID Stories
Seven ways the pandemic has changed me as a parent
By Candace Echols The first-draft title for this piece was going to be “Seven ways the pandemic has changed my parenting.” But if I’m being honest, the…
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The Long Road to Discovery of Angel’s Glow
By John Matthews The recently-released Coronavirus vaccine is being hailed as nothing short of a medical miracle due to the speed of its development. In…
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In Memoriam, 2020
This retired school teacher reflects on a year of loss, and lessons By Mark Scott It has been a very long and traumatic year. Like…
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Wayne Dowdy’s Dateline: October 7, 2020
By G. Wayne Dowdy Your correspondent writes another letter to Colonel John McLeod Keating, managing editor of the Memphis Daily Appeal during the 1878 yellow…
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Wayne Dowdy’s Dateline: Memphis, September 30, 2020
By G. Wayne Dowdy Your correspondent reflects on the differences and similarities between the Covid-19 pandemic and World War II in another letter to Colonel…
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Wayne Dowdy’s Dateline: Memphis, September 23, 2020
By G. Wayne Dowdy Your correspondent surveys the disruptions of American life due to the Covid-19 pandemic in another letter to Colonel John McLeod Keating,…
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Stand for Children Tennessee to host ‘THIS IS 2020: MEANINGFUL STORIES, ARTFUL HEALING’ Showcase on September 24
Student art submissions reflect youth perspectives on pandemic, racial injustice in Memphis and Shelby County Memphis, Tennessee – Stand for Children Tennessee will host a virtual…
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Dateline: Memphis September 16, 2020
By G. Wayne Dowdy In another letter to Colonel J. M. Keating, managing editor of the Memphis Daily Appeal during the 1878 yellow fever epidemic,…
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I couldn’t see, I couldn’t breathe. It’s time we acknowledge our collective trauma.
OPINION By Marissa Kizer “A reformation means that masses of our people have reached the point of disillusionment with past ways and values. They don’t…
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