Picking Up the Pieces

Photo by Alexis Balinoff on Unsplash

At the beginning of the pandemic, my family moved out of the city of Los Angeles.

Less than 2 miles from where we used to live in Leimert Park, we were now LA County residents. We were about to have our second kid, we were two parents working from home, we needed more space. But I did not want to go. Completely aware of the privilege I had to even be thinking about working from home, upgrading our space, and owning a house…