PAGES PENNED IN PANDEMIC brings together poetry, short stories, flash fiction, essays and more, tangible reminders that something can always be made out of nothing, that transforming the tribulations and trials of the everyday into art is not only enough, it’s everything. The Picnic Table is a canvas of family memories and future hopes.

They were where we played games, read, and performed music before TV took over. As a piano teacher zooming in, I see family life thriving there once again.

You’ve seen and you’ve heard them. The Zoomers. There’s the Yeller, the Crasher, the Facer.

What child would think of connecting God with Santa? Yours truly. And the results were life changing. At the bridge’s end I pressed up the incline that led to the Getreidegasse in Salzburg where Mozart was born. Now I, a student at the international music conservatory Mozarteum, was going to that same church.

Sometimes what you find in your pockets is unexpected.