“Emotional Fitness Dojo” as mine & Burt’s final love child.

I lost the love of my life to a recurrence of liver cancer right before the pandemic hit the west coast.

As a lone mother to a young child, I navigated returning to our life in southern California — without a car or a home — just as quarantines became a familiar occurrence. Prioritizing mine and my son’s mental health amidst a country further divided, environmental calamity and worldwide chaos and confusion, my…