Shelter in Place: When Tragedy Strikes Your Kid’s Campus

Yesterday, in the midst of a beautiful, not a cloud in the sky kind of day, the kind of day that makes you happy to be alive, I get a text from my college age son. It’s a text which he’s received from his school’s emergency warning system:

With my heart in my throat, I quickly text back, “Are you in a place you feel safe?”
“I think so. I’m in class. In the basement of a building,” he responds.

My husband who is also on the thread tells him to, “sit tight.” He asks what class he’s in and ou...