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(This is an excerpt from my newsletter, The Writing Life with Nancy Christie. If you want to subscribe, go here!)

Usually I find a new month energizing, full of promise, dare I say, even hopeful. But the last few months have been such a succession of dark nights and darker days as COVID-19 spread its shadow that its hard to approach May 1 as a fresh start.

Yes, states are gradually reopening for business. Yes, confirmed case numbers and virus deaths are trending down in many...