CLOSE Furlesia Bell, who was a major force behind a cold cast unit for Montgomery County, is the Advertiser’s Community Hero for October 2020. Montgomery Advertiser As a soft rain fell outside Kershaw YMCA, dozens gathered to listen as Furlesia Bell talked during an annual prayer vigil and balloon release […]
Read Time : 9 Minutes
The Upside Of Virtual Grieving
I attended my first Zoom funeral this past June. My husband Aaron’s aunt Maria, who lived in Pennsylvania, died of breast cancer, but her passing was still defined by the pandemic. Sitting in front of a laptop at the dining-room table in my mom’s house in southeastern Quebec, Canada, we, […]