Readers, please enjoy this guest blog post by Kerri Connor, author of several titles, including Wake, Bake & Meditate and the new 420 Meditations. At this time last year, we had been in quarantine about a month. I knew then it would be quite a while before things would return to "normal." Since then, our world has gone through many changes. We have had to learn to adjust and create new, different, sometimes better, ways of doing things we were used to doing in certain ways. While there is so much talk about getting back to normal, I have found the old normal simply doesn't work for me anymore. Sure, there are some parts of it I really do miss (hugs come to mind immediately). But

In 1925, T.S. Elliot wrote a poem that is considered a classic, The Hollow Men. It's last two lines are the most quoted: This is the way the world ends Not with a bang but a whimper. You may not have noticed it, but one of the greatest attempts to terrorize you has officially ended. On August 10, 2010, the Director-General of the World Health Organization, Dr. Margaret Chan, said that the world pandemic of Swine Flu, also known as the H1N1 virus, "has largely run its course… [and we] are now moving into the post-pandemic period." Many people thought this illness was going to decimate the world. But it has left with barely a whimper. The story above didn't even make the front