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Comfort Inn Isolation

I tested positive for Covid-19 and was relocated to the Comfort Inn to complete my mandatory isolation period. I didn't have a problem being alone at the hotel -- I ended up watching a lot of tv and had a really nice bed. The problem was...

Comfort Inn Isolation

I tested positive for Covid-19 and was relocated to the Comfort Inn to complete my mandatory isolation period. I didn't have a problem being alone at the hotel -- I ended up watching a lot of tv and had a really nice bed. The problem was...

Comfort Inn Isolation

I tested positive for Covid-19 and was relocated to the Comfort Inn to complete my mandatory isolation period. I didn't have a problem being alone at the hotel -- I ended up watching a lot of tv and had a really nice bed. The problem was...

Comfort Inn Isolation

I tested positive for Covid-19 and was relocated to the Comfort Inn to complete my mandatory isolation period. I didn't have a problem being alone at the hotel -- I ended up watching a lot of tv and had a really nice bed. The problem was...

Lowry Center

Looking into the fitness center

PIE News

The first image is a screenshot from PIE news that had covered my story. At that time I was taking my first semester. I had requested the PIE news to cover my story because I was having very frustrating situation as I had to wake up all...

Returning Home

When the lockdowns began I was stationed in Budapest, Hungary completing a Fulbright. I had only been there for a few weeks when the call came to come home. At first I was in denial that this was happening and thought that perhaps I could...

Yard Signs

I was finishing a run and came across this homemade yard sign promoting mask use "Just Wear One"

DANC108 - Fall 2020

These are photos which document the class experience of DANC 108 in Fall 2020. I was part of the class, and took the photographs for my photography independent study with Professor Marcella Hackbardt. The primary fascination is that we...

DANC108 - Fall 2020

These are photos which document the class experience of DANC 108 in Fall 2020. I was part of the class, and took the photographs for my photography independent study with Professor Marcella Hackbardt. The primary fascination is that we...

DANC108 - Fall 2020

These are photos which document the class experience of DANC 108 in Fall 2020. I was part of the class, and took the photographs for my photography independent study with Professor Marcella Hackbardt. The primary fascination is that we...

DANC108 - Fall 2020

These are photos which document the class experience of DANC 108 in Fall 2020. I was part of the class, and took the photographs for my photography independent study with Professor Marcella Hackbardt. The primary fascination is that we...

DANC108 - Fall 2020

These are photos which document the class experience of DANC 108 in Fall 2020. I was part of the class, and took the photographs for my photography independent study with Professor Marcella Hackbardt. The primary fascination is that we...

DANC108 - Fall 2020

These are photos which document the class experience of DANC 108 in Fall 2020. I was part of the class, and took the photographs for my photography independent study with Professor Marcella Hackbardt. The primary fascination is that we...

DANC108 - Fall 2020

These are photos which document the class experience of DANC 108 in Fall 2020. I was part of the class, and took the photographs for my photography independent study with Professor Marcella Hackbardt. The primary fascination is that we...

DANC108 - Fall 2020

These are photos which document the class experience of DANC 108 in Fall 2020. I was part of the class, and took the photographs for my photography independent study with Professor Marcella Hackbardt. The primary fascination is that we...

DANC108 - Fall 2020

These are photos which document the class experience of DANC 108 in Fall 2020. I was part of the class, and took the photographs for my photography independent study with Professor Marcella Hackbardt. The primary fascination is that we...

DANC108 - Fall 2020

These are photos which document the class experience of DANC 108 in Fall 2020. I was part of the class, and took the photographs for my photography independent study with Professor Marcella Hackbardt. The primary fascination is that we...

Away From Campus

These are photos of my room in Columbus. For the remote semester, I got on a roommate-finding app and ended up moving into a little yellow house near the OSU campus with an OSU student, Jess, and her 175-pound great dane, Scooby. I could...

Away From Campus

These are photos of my room in Columbus. For the remote semester, I got on a roommate-finding app and ended up moving into a little yellow house near the OSU campus with an OSU student, Jess, and her 175-pound great dane, Scooby. I could...

Patches

This is a picture of Patches, an Australian Cattle Dog rescue that my family adopted last June during the pandemic. Patches is a loyal custodian of my books and has become a staple of my remote courses. Her impromptu barking and guest...

Masked Victoria Woodhull

Granville has a clock where every hour the figure of Victoria Woodhull (the first woman to run for president in 1872 and from Homer, OH) comes out to a podium. She was recently out for repair for a few months as they fixed the clock, but...

Kenyon Halloween

Halloween looks a lot different this year! As four roommates living off campus together this semester, we thought that carving a pumpkin of Old K would be a fun way to celebrate and feel connected to Kenyon. Pictured: Zoë Packel and Amanda...

Kenyon Halloween

Halloween looks a lot different this year! As four roommates living off campus together this semester, we thought that carving a pumpkin of Old K would be a fun way to celebrate and feel connected to Kenyon. Pictured: Zoë Packel and Amanda...

Remote Student Housing

This is a map of all of the student houses (I could find) across the country. A number of my friends and I decided to live together in a house in suburban NY, and knew we weren’t alone. We then thought it would be fun to document where...

Quarantine Wedding

"We could not be stopped." Alex Alderman and Varvara Bondarenko met at Kenyon while she was a Fullbright Language Teaching Assistant in Russian and he was an Instructional Designer with the Center for Innovative Pedagogy. When her time...

Quarantine Wedding

"We could not be stopped." Alex Alderman and Varvara Bondarenko met at Kenyon while she was a Fullbright Language Teaching Assistant in Russian and he was an Instructional Designer with the Center for Innovative Pedagogy. When her time...

Quarantine Wedding

"We could not be stopped." Alex Alderman and Varvara Bondarenko met at Kenyon while she was a Fullbright Language Teaching Assistant in Russian and he was an Instructional Designer with the Center for Innovative Pedagogy. When her time...

Quarantine Wedding

"We could not be stopped." Alex Alderman and Varvara Bondarenko met at Kenyon while she was a Fullbright Language Teaching Assistant in Russian and he was an Instructional Designer with the Center for Innovative Pedagogy. When her time...

Quarantine Wedding

"We could not be stopped." Alex Alderman and Varvara Bondarenko met at Kenyon while she was a Fullbright Language Teaching Assistant in Russian and he was an Instructional Designer with the Center for Innovative Pedagogy. When her time...

Quarantine Wedding

"We could not be stopped." Alex Alderman and Varvara Bondarenko met at Kenyon while she was a Fullbright Language Teaching Assistant in Russian and he was an Instructional Designer with the Center for Innovative Pedagogy. When her time...

Quarantine Wedding

"We could not be stopped." Alex Alderman and Varvara Bondarenko met at Kenyon while she was a Fullbright Language Teaching Assistant in Russian and he was an Instructional Designer with the Center for Innovative Pedagogy. When her time...

Quarantine Wedding

"We could not be stopped." Alex Alderman and Varvara Bondarenko met at Kenyon while she was a Fullbright Language Teaching Assistant in Russian and he was an Instructional Designer with the Center for Innovative Pedagogy. When her time...

Solo Living

It is interesting that pandemic isn’t worsening every aspect of our life. For example, I have a room by myself this semester. Nonetheless I am willing to trade this advantage for the pandemic to go away if I ever could.

Campus Signs

This sign was posted on Library C today in preparation for the return of students to campus.

Art at Home

Worked on diamond art with my granddaughter while under the stay at home

Lake Park in Coshocton

Location: Lake Park in Coshocton, Ohio, People Pictured: Madeline McKee & Michael McKee III, Description: Since my kids have primarily been home with me since the stay-at-home orders began, we have taken to walking around different places...

3-D Puzzle

Ten years ago I bought this 3-d puzzle for a "rainy day" and then a rainy day never turned up. It provided me with much needed distraction after two months of being in quarantine.

3-D Puzzle

Ten years ago I bought this 3-d puzzle for a "rainy day" and then a rainy day never turned up. It provided me with much needed distraction after two months of being in quarantine.

3-D Puzzle

Ten years ago I bought this 3-d puzzle for a "rainy day" and then a rainy day never turned up. It provided me with much needed distraction after two months of being in quarantine.

3-D Puzzle

Ten years ago I bought this 3-d puzzle for a "rainy day" and then a rainy day never turned up. It provided me with much needed distraction after two months of being in quarantine.

Social Distance at the Park

The necessity for social distancing in a place as vast as the Parklands at Floyd's Fork, a massive park on the outskirts of Louisville that stretches 11 miles from end to end, seems ironic, and yet even in this space designed both to...

A Gift of Flours

We've had so much trouble getting flour during the pandemic that my little sister special-ordered some King Arthur bread flour (the hardest to find!) as a gift for my birthday.

Campus Gates

Middle Path on a Tuesday, mid-afternoon

Video Messages

When Kenyon switched to remote learning after spring break, I emailed a video to my students each week, telling them what we'd be learning about that week, what work they had to do, and reminding them about deadlines. Sadly, no student...

Popcorn for Sale

Our local movie theater marquee no longer shows what was playing in March when they closed, instead they're trying to sell popcorn.

Challah

A photograph of challah from my weekly baking for Shabbat.

Zoom Playwriting Class

Two photos of Zoom playwriting classes. One is Advanced Playwriting (Brennan Doyle, Mackenna Goodrich, Rara Gumbel, Claire MacPartland, Garrick Schulz, Eleanor Evans-Wickberg, Ellie Melick, Hannah Johnston) and the other is Playwriting...

Zoom Playwriting Class

Two photos of Zoom playwriting classes. One is Advanced Playwriting (Brennan Doyle, Mackenna Goodrich, Rara Gumbel, Claire MacPartland, Garrick Schulz, Eleanor Evans-Wickberg, Ellie Melick, Hannah Johnston) and the other is Playwriting...

Closed Cinema

A photo of the Mt. Vernon movie theater marquee on March 24, 2020 when Ohio's 'Stay at Home' order went into effect. Nearly two months later the film titles evok a less stressful time in our lives.

The Great Virtual Race

I am competing in The Great Virtual Race Across Tennessee 1000K. The race began on May 1st and ends on August 31. The race starts on the southeast corner of the state and finishes at the northeast corner of the state. There are 18,126...

Empty Playground

Photos of the Wiggin Street Elementary School Playground and the Community Playground on Meadow Lane. When village workers first put up the "DANGER" tape, I wasn't sure whether to laugh or cry. The playgrounds are closed, but a new display...

Remote Services

On May 2, 2020, Pastor Benjamin Meyer of Hope Lutheran Church in Sunbury, Ohio, was still preaching in an empty sanctuary, while I moved from the keyboard to various chairs in the back, so he would have someone to preach to besides the...

Sourdough

I've joined the sourdough resurgence during Covid! Yeast shortage in the stores is not a problem now that I've made my own sweet sourdough starter. My mother has been making her delicious bread for years-- she shared her recipe and walked...

Bread Experiments

Since the stay at home order was placed in Ohio I have been baking some type of bread every week on Tuesdays. I am known for my creative baking when it comes to desserts but I hadn’t dabbled much in the way of breads. This time to work and...

Bread Experiments

Since the stay at home order was placed in Ohio I have been baking some type of bread every week on Tuesdays. I am known for my creative baking when it comes to desserts but I hadn’t dabbled much in the way of breads. This time to work and...

Bread Experiments

Since the stay at home order was placed in Ohio I have been baking some type of bread every week on Tuesdays. I am known for my creative baking when it comes to desserts but I hadn’t dabbled much in the way of breads. This time to work and...

Bread Experiments

Since the stay at home order was placed in Ohio I have been baking some type of bread every week on Tuesdays. I am known for my creative baking when it comes to desserts but I hadn’t dabbled much in the way of breads. This time to work and...

Bread Experiments

Since the stay at home order was placed in Ohio I have been baking some type of bread every week on Tuesdays. I am known for my creative baking when it comes to desserts but I hadn’t dabbled much in the way of breads. This time to work and...

Sourdough

I've joined the sourdough resurgence during Covid! Yeast shortage in the stores is not a problem now that I've made my own sweet sourdough starter. My mother has been making her delicious bread for years-- she shared her recipe and walked...

Growing Experiment

This is a picture of our common garden, the culmination of years of plant growth and preparation for a temperature experiment on Sphagnum magellanicum populations that originated from multiple locations in North America. The experiment is...

Growing Experiment

This is a picture of our common garden, the culmination of years of plant growth and preparation for a temperature experiment on Sphagnum magellanicum populations that originated from multiple locations in North America. The experiment is...

Morning Walk

It was 5 in the morning. I love to talk a walk under the rain. I spotted this theme, featuring the rain washing the flowers from Covid-19 traces, paving the way to the gates of love in the back.

Envelopes

My submission is a picture of homemade envelopes. I have been sending more letters to friends and family recently and I like to make my own envelopes out of old calendar pages. My mom taught me how to make these when I was in elementary...

Closed Beaches

Going to one of the most popular beaches in my hometown and seeing it empty and closed was eerie and incredible. I’ve never seen T-Street like that.

Closed Beaches

Going to one of the most popular beaches in my hometown and seeing it empty and closed was eerie and incredible. I’ve never seen T-Street like that.

COVID Selfie

This is a picture of me taken by me on March 31, 2020. I took this picture the morning after I called 911 for my mom. We both had a difficult week, her fighting Covid-19 and me taking care of her all by myself. I made all her food, went...

Empty Station

This is a photo of the Fairfield, Connecticut Westbound Train Station at around noon on a lovely Saturday in April. Under normal circumstances, the 900+ capacity lot would be almost completely filled with the parked cars of people spending...

Distance Learning

This is a picture of me supervising my second-grader’s distance learning, holding a cold pack on my pug Heppy’s surgical incision, and preparing for my own afternoon online class. It epitomizes pandemic parenting and teaching for me.

Cookie Experiments

This is a photo of four different chocolate chip cookies, all broken into three parts (one per person in my household) for taste testing. They are labeled A/B/C/D. D was the winner. The recipe requires browning the butter and a very...

Heiser Commemorative Award

Every year the Kenyon Men's Lacrosse program hands out the Heiser Commemorative Award. This award is named after former Kenyon Men's Lacrosse Coach, and Kenyon Athletics Hall of Fame member, Bill Heiser. It is given to the Senior that best...

Ducklings

This is a photo of our children walking the ducklings we got from Tractor Supply when we heard the local public schools would likely be closing for the rest of the academic year. The ducklings have been a welcome distraction during the...

Visiting Mom

This is a photo my husband took of me visiting with my mother at Brookdale Senior Living Center. She cannot leave or have visitors come inside, so the best we can do is talk through the window in her apartment.

Easter Bunnies

On April 11, 2020, the night before Easter, I still hadn't ventured to the grocery store for my daughters' chocolate bunnies, so I molded bunnies out of chocolate cake mashed with chocolate butter cream frosting, weighing each one to make...

Quarantine Wedding

My sister and her fiance moved up their wedding ceremony from August in Peru to April in their back yard in Arkansas. None of the family were able to go, but they shared the video on Facebook Live so we could "attend."

Masks in New York

I retooled my suit-factory to making masks for NY state and made free face-shields to distribute free to hospital workers here at the epicenter in NYC

Peirce Grocery

Pictures of our grocery set up to service the students

Online Fitness

One positive outcome of going online and being shut-in, has been the proliferation of online dance, yoga and fitness classes that are open to all. It's been wonderful to take ballet barre w/ friends in NYC, simultaneously practice yoga w...

Peirce Grocery

Pictures of our grocery set up to service the students

Peirce Grocery

Pictures of our grocery set up to service the students

Peirce Grocery

Pictures of our grocery set up to service the students

Peirce Grocery

Pictures of our grocery set up to service the students

Peirce Grocery

Peirce Grocery

Pictures of our grocery set up to service the students

Peirce Grocery

Pictures of our grocery set up to service the students

Peirce Grocery

Pictures of our grocery set up to service the students

Peirce Grocery

Online Fitness

One positive outcome of going online and being shut-in, has been the proliferation of online dance, yoga and fitness classes that are open to all. It's been wonderful to take ballet barre w/ friends in NYC, simultaneously practice yoga w...

Online Fitness

One positive outcome of going online and being shut-in, has been the proliferation of online dance, yoga and fitness classes that are open to all. It's been wonderful to take ballet barre w/ friends in NYC, simultaneously practice yoga w...

Distance Happy Hour

West Woodside Drive spontaneous Corona Happy Hour w/ safe social distancing. It's been lovely to sit in the street and share stories and "together" time. A life-line to "normalcy"- connecting with friends & neighbors. Participants vary...

Social Distance Happy Hour

West Woodside Drive spontaneous Corona Happy Hour w/ safe social distancing. It's been lovely to sit in the street and share stories and "together" time. A life-line to "normalcy"- connecting with friends & neighbors. Participants vary...

Social Distance Happy Hour

West Woodside Drive spontaneous Corona Happy Hour w/ safe social distancing. It's been lovely to sit in the street and share stories and "together" time. A life-line to "normalcy"- connecting with friends & neighbors. Participants vary...

Social Distance Happy Hour

West Woodside Drive spontaneous Corona Happy Hour w/ safe social distancing. It's been lovely to sit in the street and share stories and "together" time. A life-line to "normalcy"- connecting with friends & neighbors. Participants vary...

Dance Online

Teaching and taking dance online- dancing "together apart." Trying to participate in and create online physical community. Professors Julie Brodie & Balinda Craig-Quijada

Dance Online

Teaching and taking dance online- dancing "together apart." Trying to participate in and create online physical community. Professors Julie Brodie & Balinda Craig-Quijada

Empty Aisles

A picture of the empty shelving in Target, where toilet paper and cleaning supplies should be.

Empty Playground

Photos of the Wiggin Street Elementary School Playground and the Community Playground on Meadow Lane. When village workers first put up the "DANGER" tape, I wasn't sure whether to laugh or cry. The playgrounds are closed, but a new display...

Sourdough Experiments

I like to bake, but I'm not much of a bread person so I got on the sourdough train to try to improve my skills. I have been trying bread (with both failure and success), but I've also made pizza dough, muffins, cake, coffee cake, and more...

Line at Trader Joe's

This is a photo I took on my phone. I was out running when I passed by my local Trader Joe's grocery store, and I saw this line of people. It wrapped around the building. Everyone in line was there to get their groceries, but they were all...

Empty Playground

Photos of the Wiggin Street Elementary School Playground and the Community Playground on Meadow Lane. When village workers first put up the "DANGER" tape, I wasn't sure whether to laugh or cry. The playgrounds are closed, but a new display...

Empty Playground

Photos of the Wiggin Street Elementary School Playground and the Community Playground on Meadow Lane. When village workers first put up the "DANGER" tape, I wasn't sure whether to laugh or cry. The playgrounds are closed, but a new display...

Empty Playground

Photos of the Wiggin Street Elementary School Playground and the Community Playground on Meadow Lane. When village workers first put up the "DANGER" tape, I wasn't sure whether to laugh or cry. The playgrounds are closed, but a new display...

Working from Home

A photo of me "working" with my two year-old son who is homebound from daycare for the undetermined future.

Empty Shelves

It is a photo of an empty store shelf at my local supermarket where there should be toilet paper.

Remote Services

I accompany services at Hope Lutheran Church in Sunbury, Ohio. On March 17, 2020, instead of holding regular Sunday services, we began recording services for Youtube in an empty sanctuary with Pastor Benjamin Meyer at the front; myself on...

Music Pickup

Outside the Chapel of Mount Vernon Nazarene University, where I went to pick up some sheet music on March 11, 2020. Instead of a welcoming table with information about the week's theme, the only item on display was this bottle of hand...

Baking Triumphs

Photos of my baking triumphs (scones, coffee cake, shortbread and cranberry-nut bread)

Baking Triumphs

Photos of my baking triumphs (scones, coffee cake, shortbread and cranberry-nut bread)

Baking Triumphs

Photos of my baking triumphs (scones, coffee cake, shortbread and cranberry-nut bread)

Baking Triumphs

Photos of my baking triumphs (scones, coffee cake, shortbread and cranberry-nut bread)