Things I never expected to be thankful for

Let's stop saying "May you live in interesting times"

How a pandemic and fraught/contested election made me better at managing stress over what I can’t control and also for puncturing my silly assumption that someone is in charge

That my family contracted COVID already so I don’t have to obsess over what will happen if we all have COVID

How the kids had COVID at the same time so we didn’t have to drag out o…