The Stockholm Syndrome of Sheltering in Place
15 min readMay 20, 2020
“LET’S GOOOOOOOOOO!!!!”
It’s the summer of 2019 and this sudden yelling rips me out of sleep at 2:11am.
It takes me a minute of sweaty panic to get my bearings and realize there isn’t an actual emergency, the kind I’ve had a decade-long career waking up to with my younger son. The kind that sends fright to your toes and sends your heart exploding out of a…