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Carin M. Smilk

Carin M. Smilk

Carin M. Smilk is managing editor of the U.S. bureau at JNS, with extensive experience in writing, content editing, copy editing and newsroom management. She has worked in newspaper and communications offices in New York, Boston, Philadelphia and Baltimore; freelanced for more than 25 years; and contributed to magazines and books. She has won more than three dozen individual and team journalism awards on the U.S. state and national levels.

The oblong sleds in the garage glared at me, the plastic snow-brick builders sulked in their corner.
There are two camps sheltering in place around the country (and world) right now: those at home with kids and those without.
The next thing I knew, I was lying on my back in the middle of Eighth and Broadway.
One more thing on hold that no one could have foreseen just two-and-half weeks ago.
I don a white winter cap and semi-cat-eye pink plastic sunglasses. They might offer some protection.
Real hardships? Real needs? There are so many right now … and always have been.
There are two relevant definitions: “to remain tightly secured” and “to continue to believe in or adhere to an idea or principle.”
I saw a shadow from a distance. And I was barefoot, for some reason, yet still running pretty fast.