Destiny Jenkins-Jones
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The COVID-19 pandemic has been a curse to many and an opportunity to others. I am one of those others.
This may be the craziest thing I’ve said in my 17 years, but: For me, the pandemic has been a blessing in disguise. In the early stages of it, I would sleep in, not eat and skip getting dressed. The pandemic took away so much of my confidence and desire to do anything I normally did for myself, for school or for my writing.
I had been working at Fairlane Mall’s Auntie Anne’s you know, the place with the baked pretzels until Gov. Gretchen Whitmer’s stay-at-home order closed malls last March.
Lawrence Price and Sydney Neal
Special to the Detroit Free Press
Tonya Mosley was 13 when she boarded a bus in northwest Detroit and took it downtown to the Detroit Free Press to meet editor Bob McGruder in 1993. McGruder, who had been named editor of the paper earlier that year, had arranged for Mosley to spend a day shadowing a journalist.
It was her first time taking the bus that far.
“I was like an hour late, and when I got there, this journalist had actually called in sick,” said Mosley, who is the co-host of the NPR and WBUR radio show, Here & Now.