Sisters

I don't usually write about my two sisters, but that doesn't mean they aren't an essential part of me. In our formative years we were like three peas in a pod (all fully individual peas, of course!), but as adults we've somehow ended up in three different places in the world: the US, China, and the UK. I'm no geography whiz, but according to length of plane flights, it seems as though we're spread out as evenly as you could imagine.
As much as our paths may have diverged, I'm still amazed to think that there are two people out there in the world who are really much more like me than anybody else on the planet. Now all in our forties (YIKES!), we haven't lived anywhere close to each other for decades. Usually for me this feels like a sad underlying circumstance since we aren't able to share in each other's daily lives. But with the novel coronavirus now affecting all of us, I kept finding articles I wanted to share and could see there were others who were doing the same. Two days ago my sister in China popped up in a chat window and asked how I was doing in the UK, and I asked how she was doing over there. She mentioned some things which I thought were really helpful for those coming up behind the China experience and even sent a couple of carefully selected links to me and our other sister. So then I thought, why not continue to compare notes with my geographically divergent but like-minded sisters? Yesterday I asked them both if they'd like to help me collate the resources we think are the most helpful for getting our heads around what's happening with COVID-19 and coping with the resulting challenges.
If there's one word I'd use to describe our family, it's "resourceful." Whatever else we may be, we all really like getting the right tools and systems in place to make our lives easier. With a librarian, writer/editor, and translator in the sisterly mix, it feels natural to sift through the mountains, waves, or whatever-metaphor-you'd-like of information constantly being generated and thrown about. We're not treating blogging like a job, but every time we come across something helpful that we ourselves would like to find again easily, share with a friend, or cite elsewhere, it will go up here. The result is meant to be a curated digest of info that any willing netizen can, um, digest. (Hee hee.)
So if you're inclined, please join us as we present our favorite resources of the moment and even create a little bit of content for your perusal. If you have a moment, go and explore the labels on the right-hand side by clicking anything that grabs your attention. It's likely that you'll find something you haven't seen before and can actually use in the coming days and months.
Thanks for reading this far and hope to see you back here again soon.
- Jennifer