Stories of COVID-19: Under the Same Roof

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🗓️ 17 September 2021

⏱️ 29 minutes

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Summary

This week, we bring you two stories about negotiating life under the same roof during the COVID-19 pandemic.

Part 1: When Gail Thomas moves in with her family during the pandemic, tensions brew between sisters.

Part 2: The pandemic brings Wendy Bredhold and her ex-husband back together under the same roof for Thanksgiving.

Gail is a writer/actor/storytelling coach and lawyer living in NYC. Her voiceover credits include John Cameron Mitchell’s Anthem: Homunculus, Angelo Rules, David Letterman, and Beavis and Butthead. Her short comedy, My BFF won audience favorite at New Filmmakers. As a speechwriter for over 30-world class events including the Tribeca Film Festival, her words have been uttered by Oscar winners and fancy people with great clothes. But none of that matters now, we’re in a pandemic. Gail is out walking her dog.

Wendy Bredhold works for climate and environmental justice representing the Sierra Club’s Beyond Coal Campaign in Indiana and Kentucky. She lives in Evansville, Indiana with her daughter Beatrice Rose and cats, Pearl and Pinky. She loves dancing to live music, reading, writing and rabble-rousing.

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0:00.0	Hey everyone. Welcome to Story Clyder's Stories of COVID-19. This week, we're bringing you two stories about negotiating life under the same roof during the pandemic.
0:22.9	I live in New York City, but my partner and I spent the majority of 2020 and some of 2021,
0:28.9	living with my friend and her partner at her home in Toledo, Ohio, while we were working remotely.
0:33.8	So the four of us survived this time together.
0:36.6	We had dumb arguments about scrambled eggs and
0:40.5	extension cords and whether or not to go out places and how loudly some of us played rock band
0:47.8	on the PlayStation and what time of day. But mostly we supported each other.
0:59.2	Fortunately, we all had our nervous breakdowns at different points in the year, which was very helpful.
1:05.8	In our stories today, both of our storytellers are navigating similar adapted pandemic living situations and all of the challenges that those may bring.
1:09.5	Our first story today is from Gail Thomas.
1:12.6	It was recorded in February 2021 at her home in Brooklyn.
1:27.4	Phone calls checking in with my younger brother in Dallas and my older sister in Denver.
1:33.2	COVID is still abstract to them. Not to me. It's March 2020. I live in New York City, the epicenter
1:40.1	with 8 million something other people. I'm staying as far away from them as possible.
1:46.4	Luckily, I'm single. I live alone, and I already work remotely. So it's not hard as long as I don't
1:53.5	leave my apartment. Our 90-year-old mom recently moved from Oklahoma City to Denver to be an
2:00.8	assisted living near my sister K.
2:04.0	My sister K. My big sister K. We're both really nice people, but we are super different. She's a CEO,
2:13.0	a big picture action taker. An optimist, she says. That's stupid. It's a pandemic. This is not the time to be
2:20.6	optimistic. I googled Best Face Mask in January and Amazon delivered my N95s on February 2nd.
2:27.1	I'm a former lawyer, a cancer survivor, a freelance overthinker. I like to prepare for
2:33.0	worst case scenarios. Thankfully, Kay and her husband
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