2020 started off misty with rain clouds. I might have mistaken it for a bad omen if I didn’t know that’s rainbow weather. I remember hearing of the year 2020 when I was a kid thinking, “That’s so far away…” and now here I am. But haven’t I been here all along? And won’t I…

In 2014 I said goodbye to beautiful Tanzania, spent eight hard months in inland Virginia, and moved back to my little home island for the first time in almost 10 years. I gave birth naturally (without pain meds) to my second child. I learned (am learning?) how to be a mama of two. I visited…