There's don't touch just be still and don't touch anything cool cool Kieu Kiel Oh, Welcome to this bonus episode of the Ten Things to Tell You podcast.

This is going to be a conversation with me, Laura Tremaine, and my family.

My husband Jeff, who is a TV film, producer director, and our two kids, Lucy, who is

11 and in the fifth grade, and Finch, who is 9 and in the third grade.

I wanted to record this conversation as part of our family

documentation of the global pandemic, especially now that we are at the official one-year

mark of when the COVID-19 virus really started to

affect our lives back in March 2020. A few weeks ago at the beginning of March

2021 I released episode 106, 10 questions to mark

one year of the pandemic. And in that episode I gave you 10 questions that you can take to your journal or to a friend or to do what we did and have a family conversation about what the year has looked like for you.

In our conversation here, we don't answer every single question

from that episode, but we do use them

as a framework to talk about the challenges and the joys of the last year where we have spent most of it here in our home in Los Angeles.

If you decide to have a conversation like this with your family or with kids, partners, parents, grandparents,

consider recording it either on video or on audio.

Most smartphones have a built-in way to record yourself.

On an iPhone, you have a voice memo app.

It is native to your phone.

And in my experience, if you're recording just the audio it usually makes people less

self-conscious than if there's a camera on them.

It also takes up less space on your phone if you're using your phone or a tablet, so that's

something to consider. If you don't think that

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