This story was collected as a part of the 2020 Collecting Initiative Making Lemonade from Covid Lemons with Textile Art By Pamela Palma When Covid hit in March of 2020, I was full throttle into organizing a community project, a monumental textile mural to honor Julia Tuttle, the Mother of Miami, for the 125th anniversary […]

Viewpoints on 2020 By Barbara Fox   INTRODUCTION 2020 was quite a year; life changed almost overnight because of the pandemic. The newspapers and television were reporting horrifying stories and statistics about a deadly disease that spread in the air. Thousands of people were dying and hospitals were filled to capacity and more. People started […]

This story was collected as a part of the 2020 Collecting Initiative Pregnant During the Pandemic By Janelle Bravo-San Pedro We had waited so long for this moment. After struggling with infertility and three failed IUI attempts for 5 years, we decided to go through the in vitro fertilization. Thankfully, we decided during the final […]

This story was collected as a part of the 2020 Collecting Initiative Was it Worth It? By Arielle Brimacombe The following is a post I made on my Facebook account reflecting on working in the Covid-19 units for approximately 5 months straight, from late March to early September at Jackson Memorial Hospital as a physical […]

This story was collected as a part of the 2020 Collecting Initiative Thoughts on Thoughts by Irene Sperber I was doing just fine, I thought. But I see a few cracks in my fine-ness. Normal always had a sliding scale meaning. I don’t know why we bother with it anymore. It’s added it to my […]

En mayo de 1980, contando con apenas 15 años de edad perturbada, agobiada y bastante confundida en ese momento, me emprendí en lo que yo pensaba en aquel momento una aventura. Era un viaje de ida y regreso del que sin saber, me marcó un destino sin regreso a mi casa. Como adolescente al fin, […]

A Miami Story by Lynda Grant Killingsworth in honor of all Americans on this anniversary of Pearl Harbor. A letter home from James Whitfield Grant dated Saturday, Sept 22, 1945 written in Tokyo Bay. — Dear Mom, Well, her’is the bad news-We have been detached from the Third fleet and reassigned to the Fifth fleet […]

La embajada del Perú fue el 4 de abril del 1980 y mi hija nació el 12 de Abril de 1980 , así que cuando nos llegó la salida por el Mariel el 17 de mayo, ella solo tenía 36 días de nacida. Cuando nos presentamos en el edificio de seguridad donde nos recogerían ,nos […]