Connie Kelly will be eating ham for a while. That’s what happens when you have your holiday entrée and are the only guest of honor.
It’s been a lonely year during restrictions in response to the novel coronavirus outbreak, and the holiday season feels perhaps distinctively so as Americans stay home from their usual gatherings amid a spike in cases.
For some, like Kelly, 77, of West Bloomfield Township, this might mean seeing no one at all, at least in person. For folks like her, it is important to have a plan to find a little bit of joy or connection, mental health experts say.