March 17, 2020
Today marks the most unconventional St. Patrick's Day I hope to ever see within my lifetime. As someone who has grown up and continues to grow in a very big, very proud Irish-American family, St. Patrick's Day has always meant a lot to me. This year it represents something much bigger than it has before. It represents coming together, without physically coming together. I want to reflect on my family today, March 17, 2020, on this rainy, scary, eerily quiet, quarantined St. Patrick's Day. For days my body has felt tense in the midst of unclear knowledge and expectations of what is to come. Within the fear and the uncomfortable lack in answers to the many, many questions that race within my mind, I have realized the things that are the most important to me. Number one being, as it always has been, my family. Let me repeat it, my family is very big, very proud, and VERY Irish. Growing up my Dad often played the Irish radio station on long car rides and I felt as though my...