Nothing against brunch, but what would Mother's Day look like if it paid tribute to the work of mothers in all its complexity, particularly over the past year?

After spending most of my free time in parks for a year, I visited St. Louis and saw a city that related to its parks very differently. My attempts to understand why revealed a stark truth: our parks were designed to separate people, not bring them together.

As a kid, Danny Cox saw photographs of lynching victims in magazines. As a grandfather, he saw George Floyd being killed on video. For him, this moment is big — and much longer than one year in the making.

People who lost the ability to smell due to COVID-19 describe surreal experiences, like tasting nothing but ketchup for weeks. They also describe the jarring impact of not being able to rely on what scientists call a "primal sense."

Over the course of a long, pandemic winter, we may have gotten awfully cozy with our phones. And yes, I'm talking to the grownups.