by Charity Lee Jennings | Mar 1, 2023
A Hundred Good-Byes The Canada we arrived to wasn’t one I recognized. We entered an airport full of masked faces, forms to fill out, and for some of us, Covid tests and quarantine. Dad J waited outside in February cold, for the hours it took us to...
by Charity Lee Jennings | Oct 22, 2021
Original Artwork by Charity Lee Jennings Read Part 1 of the story here. “The taxi driver dropped us in the wrong spot,” Brian said over the phone. I glanced at my watch. They’d already had one Covid test that day but couldn’t get the results in time. The second...
by Charity Lee Jennings | Sep 23, 2021
A Race I Didn’t Want To Win It was meant to be Malachi and Zachary’s last day in China and Brian was in search of a restaurant. “Cheap,” he thought, “we’ve already put so much money into plane tickets…but special.” Beef Noodle Soup was the perfect...
by Charity Lee Jennings | May 19, 2021
Liberation Tower “I heard back from the Consulate,” I told Brian. “Either the boys or one of us needs to be there in person, since they’re switching from child to adult passports.” “What! Travel to another province? With all that’s going on with Covid?” ...
by Charity Lee Jennings | Sep 16, 2020
Open Highway Trapped! Between the busyness of life and the Covid crisis, it had been nearly a year since I’d been on open highway, leaving city life behind. With parks closed and roads closed and apartment living, for months I felt trapped. My walks by the...
by Charity Lee Jennings | Jan 23, 2019
“Let’s schedule a call to talk about our trip to China,” the text from my brother read. After years of planning, Dan and Yvonne were coming to visit. I was excited, so excited, but unprepared. Dan and Yvonne are great guests, so it wasn’t hosting them in my home I...
