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Do you feel like your life is going well right now? Has the pandemic changed this? If so, tell us about it.

In some ways my life is going better than it was before the pandemic--in terms of work and career goals, that is. I've been lucky to start new work that is meaningful and fulfilling and to connect with great people even if it's not in person. Perhaps that's also due to the pandemic because people have a different feeling now towards everyone, it's easier to get close to people more quickly over Skype. Everyone is glad to have that connection at least. Teaching online feels ever more like therapy to my adult students--but I'm happy to be there for them. Sometimes I'm sure I'm easy for them to open up to because I'm in that liminal position of fulfilling a proper role in their lives but I'm also a stranger whom they'll never meet--it helps me put my own problems and worries into perspective as I learn about their situation, so it helps to ground me. Sometimes I feel exhausted afterward, there are so many people hurting. But it's also inspiring and in some ways I feel much less isolated than I've ever been.