Virginia Reflections: The Week of Tragedy and Triumph

First it was the constant phone buzzing and then the flurry of emails. Alert. Alert. Alert. I thought the late Sunday evening text messages were too numerous not to be true. However, I did not fully register the seriousness of it all. Shelter in Place. I fell asleep. In the early hours of the next morning those same alerts, now opened and read through my email inbox, made me suspicious. The…