My co-author Joel Greer and I were neighbors in the 60s. We reconnected via Facebook in late 2019. As a result, in 2020 when COVID-19 was in full swing, we created the CORONA RICHMOND Facebook page to provide a venue for a wide variety of friends to talk about how the pandemic was affecting their lives - whether mundane or live-threatening, suffering anxiety or providing hope. All contributed to this anthology of short, well-written vignettes about their lives In the Year of the Virus.

I am a former law firm Office Administrator, now retired, living in Pacifica, California. I have always had a passion for writing, especially travel logs.

Joel Greer is a retired sports writer, spending the last 55 years in a variety of journalistic endeavors, most notably as a college football writer/editor for the Bleacher Report website. He lives in Richmond, Virginia.