The East Hampton Star: Generation Zoom

In a recent frenzy of spring cleaning, I unzipped my son’s long-forgotten backpack.

Inside was his red vinyl homework folder. I opened it up. In the pocket marked “Return to School” he had tucked in his reading and math homework. In pencil, he had written the date: March 11, 2020.

The double-sided sheet of paper was like a relic from a bygone era, back when we sent our children off to school each morning and ate in restaurants and didn’t wear surgical masks to go grocery shopping.