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Annie Holmquist
Annie Holmquist served as the editor of Intellectual Takeout from 2018 to 2022. When not writing or editing, she enjoys reading, gardening, and time with family and friends.

A teacher friend of mine was secretly pleased when she heard that schools were going to finish out the year with online classes. Curious, I asked for her reasoning. The answer was simple: she has a mute button while teaching online. Because of that mute button, this teacher doesn’t have to spend time dealing with
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Several weeks ago, New York Governor Andrew Cuomo gave a press conference on – what else? – the coronavirus. The press conference was, like many these days, a discussion of numbers and the problems of reopening the economy, but one statement was a bit startling. Discussing the hopeful sign of plateauing numbers, Cuomo expressed caution
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A friend of mine recently relayed a conversation she had with a mutual friend of ours. This mutual friend grew up in China but emigrated to the United States to pursue higher education, and is now happily married, raising a family of her own, and living the American dream. When asked about the coronavirus, its
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I caught a small whiff of hope today. This whiff came when a relative of mine received a phone call from the cardiac rehab center at the local hospital. The rehab classes he had been taking following heart surgery were cancelled when coronavirus hit. Now there was good news: rehab will be revived next week.
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