- The most popular sections at the grocery became the spice shelves and baking goods aisle.
- Turned out our neighborhood did have a lot of people who lived in it. Who would have known!
- More of us understood the differences between “wants” and “needs”.
- The reason for common courtesies such as covering your mouth and nose when sneezing became obvious.
- “Hobby” became more inclusive, such as reorganizing storage shelves for the third time in four months.
- Wearing clothes for longer than a few hours in a day was regarded as a major hassle.
- Uneven gray won “Hair Color of the Year” award.
- “Family time” had a whole new meaning.
- Learning about statistics, graphs, data trends and charts was taken off my list of life goals.
- Personal space was renamed to the much more contemporary term, “social distancing”.
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Robin Helmuth
Robin Helmuth is the father of two grown children and has two granddaughters. Robin and Deb have made Indianapolis their home for more than 40 years.