MARCH 19, 2020 Portland, Ore: Today Today we talk to Julia, a creative artist/playwright/teacher and astrologer who lives in Portland Oregon. She is an activist for the queer community and environmental justice, uses theater as a platform for change and gives transformational astrology readings to help folks understand themselves more fully. She lives with five roommates, and her little dog, Sparkles. As a household, Julia and her roommates  have developed unique ways to flourish during the shelter in place of this pandemic.

To learn more about Julia and schedule an astrology reading: https://www.the-magic-is-you.com/

MARCH 18, 2020. Today we speak with Bob. He’s a 66 year old lawyer who graduated from Yale Law School. He’s also a playwright and a professor of English. Recently, he relocated from his home in the New York City area to his country house in upstate New York. Bob tells us about how the 9/11 disaster compromised the lungs of many New Yorkers, himself included, and despite his best efforts, working with members of congress to sue the government--they could never get the government to test how far the dangerous debris had spread, which would have enabled the cleanup of neighborhoods containing the corrosive alkaline dust.. And now, there are untold numbers of people walking around with compromised lung function--at a time when this pandemic attacks the lungs.

These are the Covid Chronicles. A podcast of ordinary voices, in the midst of a Pandemic.

MARCH 17, 2020: New York City. Today we speak with Jay, a 64 year-old real estate broker living in Manhattan. He has a long time partner who lives in Rome.

MARCH 16, 2020: LOS ANGELES. Today we speak to Eleanor, 28 and living in the Echo Park section of Los Angeles.

In this first episode of Covid Chronicles, we check in with Spencer, an American in his 30s living and working in Berlin.