COVID: my journey to hell and back

A good friend of mine, some 50 years ago, was a basketball coach for a team I covered for my newspaper.

Having just won an important district game over a tall and talented opponent, I told him, “Your boys did a great job last Saturday night.” (His tallest of 12 team members was 5’10”; the opponents had a much taller team.)

The coach replied, “You gotta’ have a little luck, too.”

Likewise, while pl...