Don’t Forget How to Hope

The most important skill we’ll take from this time

Ashley Abramson

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Photo by Engin Akyurt from Pexels

A week into the pandemic, my kids and I got out the markers and made signs to hang in our living room window: You are loved. Thank you, doctors and nurses. We’ll get through this. Hope didn’t come naturally in the uncertainty, but getting out the art supplies was my way of keeping my eye on the future so I could stay afloat in the…

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Ashley Abramson

Writer-mom hybrid. Health & psychology stories in NYT, WaPo, Allure, Real Simple, & more.