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A New Chapter Jennifer Podolsky takes the reins at Princeton Public Library.

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Alexander Road is scheduled to reopen soon. Was the six-month closure the traffic nightmare everyone feared?

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Now that nothing is certain anymore, rituals give us something to hold on to, writes columnist Pia de Jong.

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PRINCETON FAMILY YMCA AN OPEN LETTER TO THE PRINCETON COMMUNITY: Stress Testing our Values

Dear Friends and Neighbors, I am writing to you today on behalf of the Princeton Family YMCA to share our story and to assure you that we are doing all that we can to endure through this crisis.

At the YMCA, our four core values – honesty, caring, respect and responsibility – are embedded in all that we do, but today they are being tested like never before. Arguably we’ve taken these values for granted – including them in marketing materials and on banners in rote fashion – but I can tell you today with confidence that they are deeply ingrained in our Y’s culture and community and they will be the foundation by which we navigate this unimaginable challenge and successfully come out of it on the other side.

This is where we are: Honesty: Our Y is in a financially fragile place. We operate in a well-used building, long past its prime, with little in reserves to keep us going in a time like this. We depend almost entirely on revenues from our membership and program fees, with about 10–15 percent from charitable donations. With revenues disappearing in an instant, we had no choice but to temporarily lay off 130 hourly part-time and five full-time staff. It was a heartbreaking decision. These individuals are the life-blood of our organization and they maintain deep, meaningful and longstanding relationships with our members and the larger Princeton community. But we know that to survive, we must rely on what little savings we have to serve the community when we can open our doors again.

Caring: Our now much smaller staff will be available to support Princeton in any way we can. Two staff members are dedicated exclusively to supporting our children and teens, and their families, who are part of the Princeton Young Achievers and ACE programs.

We know how especially vulnerable they are in these trying times. We will also do everything we can to make ourselves available to the town, the school district, and the larger community as a resource – our facility is here for the asking. Our Board of Directors want to help too - they are also available to support and/or lead community initiatives to connect our neighbors in need, regardless of circumstances.

Respect: Our Y is facing a big challenge, but nothing like what healthcare workers, physicians, emergency responders and local and state leaders are. We are in awe of their dedication and commitment to saving lives, often at great risk to their own, and to helping find a way forward. The YMCA’s earliest beginnings, more than 170+ years ago, centered on the belief that having faith in a higher power and in one another is how we endure periods of suffering, pain and loss. We at the Y still have a deep faith – especially in our community’s resilience - thanks to these remarkable people, and will continue to believe that we will prevail, by working together and putting the other first.

Responsibility: Now is that time to follow the direction of our medical experts and local leaders, and do our part to flatten the curve. Now is the time to put social responsibility into action and model good citizenship by sheltering in place and practicing social distancing. As you spend time at home, call your loved ones frequently, check in with your neighbors by phone or using other technologies, and write to your legislators to tell them what you think.

Even though we are at physical distances, we are still deeply connected as neighbors, Y members and citizens. Now, more than ever, we need to come together and intentionally model these four core values in our actions and choices and also say why it matters.

As an organization, there is no doubt that we are in a very precarious moment. If you can help us during this time, please visit our website to learn more or contact me directly at kbech@princetonymca.org. I pledge that I will do everything that I can to lead us through this time so the YMCA of Princeton, with 112 years of enduring history in this community, will be here on the other side, ready to move forward to connect us, enrich us and help in shaping a brighter future.

Sincerely,

Kate Bech, CEO At the Y, we are for Youth Development, for Healthy Living, and for Social Responsibility.

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LEADING OFF

Community in the time of quarantine Editor’s Note: The information here is accurate as of the time the Echo went to press on March 26. For updates and additional resources from the town of Princeton and other local organizations, visit www.princetoncovid.org.

As of press time, a statewide ban on most social gatherings was in place, and events scheduled for April were postponed, canceled, or up in the air. Notable among the postponements is the annual Communiversity celebration usually held the last weekend in April. It will instead take place on Sunday, October 11.

Due to this uncertainty, this issue of the Echo does not feature its typical printed calendar of upcoming events.

When community gatherings resume, our calendar will be updated daily at www.communitynews.org/events.

For your entertainment

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hile their physical spaces are closed, many Princeton institutions are doing their best to offer their services virtually.

Using the tagline “apART together,” the Arts Council of Princeton is inviting the community to participate in its ACP Sketch Club. Community members are encouraged “to devote time each day to complete a page in a

sketchbook (or any notebook or sheet of paper) that details your time spent social-distancing.

“Not only can this daily practice and commitment to a visual arts project bring peace and inspiration, but by joining the ACP Sketch Club, you’ll add your voice to the collective conversation and chronicles of life during self-isolation.”

Joining is free: just date your daily creation, snap a photo, and upload to Facebook or Instagram with #acpsketchclub. The Arts Council will share participants’ posts on social media. www.artscouncilofprinceton.org Princeton Garden Theater, in partnership with its independent distribution partners, has made three films available for streaming. A five-day “rental” costs $12.

The films are: “Corpus Christi,” a Polish film about a young man who undergoes a religious transformation in juvenile detention and tries to escape his past by posing as a priest in a small town; “Saint Frances,” about a 34-yearold navigating an unwanted pregnancy after finally meeting a nice guy and landing a nannying job; and Bacurau, a Brazilian film that mixes anticolonial politics and modern Brazilian issues

with elements of science fiction. www. princetongardentheatre.org The staff of Princeton Public Library is available to chat via web, phone, or e-mail from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m., Mondays through Fridays.

Among other things, the team can help navigate the library’s digital offerings, including access to e-books, audiobooks, learning and research tools, digital versions of magazines, and more. www.princetonlibrary.org Labyrinth Books’ vast selection of fiction, non-fiction, and children’s books can be browsed online, and the store is offering free shipping within the continental United States for all orders placed by phone. Online orders over $30 will be delivered for free within Princeton. www.labyrinthbooks.com One Princeton-based author who can add some entertainment to days spent at home with the kids is Anica Mrose Rissi (The Echo, September 2017), whose most recent book, “Love, Sophia on the Moon,” was published by

Little, Brown and Company on March 31. The book, intended for ages 4 to 8, features a child named Sophia who decides to run away to the moon, but in a series of letters with her mom realizes that maybe life on earth wasn’t so bad.

Morven Museum is closed, but its grounds and historic garden, complete with signage, are open to the public.

Princeton University Art Museum is also closed, but materials related to numerous past exhibits can be viewed at artmuseum.princeton.edu/learn/ explore/online-exhibitions The Princeton Historical Society also offers digital exhibits, virtual walking tours, and a chance to make your own history documenting the COVID19 pandemic in Princeton. www. prince­tonhistory.org/athome

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ix months ago, newspapers told of raffic counts show that Alexander impending doom due to the closure Street is used for over 7,000 motor of the Alexander Road bridge for a six- vehicle trips per day, so many experts month repair project. For some, the predicted that closing the road would result of the project has been the “traf- cause major problems. The chief of fic hell” that we warned of in our head- police in Princeton said that roads line. One resident wrote a letter to the would be “very congested … we want editor saying that he and his wife were people to understand there are going almost late for a surgical procedure to be delays during rush hour.” But after it took nearly an hour to drive just how bad did the delays get? We from Princeton Juncmeasured travel times tion to Bunn Drive. before and after the Despite dire Now, as the project construction project is expected to be com- predictions, the began, and found (perpleted later this month, haps surprisingly) that the question is: Was Alexander Road most Princeton comthis experience wide- closure seemed to muters are experiencspread? ing delays of three minSam Bunting, a cause only slight utes or less on trips into walking and biking town during the mornactivist, decided to delays. ing rush hour. answer this question In 2019, before Alexwith a mini scientific study of sorts, to ander Street was closed, we measured see what the implications might be for how long it took drivers to get from a road policy more broadly. As an associ- number of addresses in local towns to ate professor of molecular biology and Palmer Square, in the heart of downbiochemistry at Rutgers, Bunting is no town Princeton. Travel times were meastranger to crunching numbers. sured using Google Maps’ traffic layer.

In a post on Walkable Princeton, a Most drivers have cell phones in their blog that Bunting runs together with vehicles, which are constantly sending another Princeton resident, Bunting signals to nearby cell phone masts. That described the study and its outcome: See TRAFFIC, Page 6

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he following listings of residential home sales are based on public records and tax files. The number in parentheses after the closing price indicates the amount it was above or below the original listing price.

305 Prospect Avenue. Seller: William Harla and Joanne Limoges-Harla.

Buyer: Alexander and Sarah Ploss.

Two-story Colonial in Riverside. 4 bedrooms, 2.5 baths. $985,000.

257 Moore Street. Seller: Robert and Victoria DiMella. Buyer: Amir Ahmadi and Margarita Herrera. One-story Contemporary. 2 bedrooms, 2.5 baths. $910,000.

239 Hamilton Avenue. Seller: Alfred and Deborah Engelmann. Buyer: James Perry and Hetty Baiz. Townhouse in Queenston Common. 2 bedrooms, 2.5 baths. $608,000.

264 Mountain Avenue. Seller: Michael Volovnik. Buyer: Dinesh and Alexandra Jain. Ranch. 2 bedrooms, 2 baths. $700,000 (-$49,900).

15 Oakland Street. Seller: Heather and Eric Ishikawa. Buyer: Mohammad and Mehrnaz Kousha. Threestory Colonial. 3 bedrooms, 1.5 baths. $725,000.

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165 Neil Court. Seller: Yi Bao and Yan Gao. Buyer: Minoru and Akiko Iino. Townhouse in Washington Oaks.

3 bedrooms, 2.5 baths. $661,000 ($1,000).

65 Pine Street. Seller: Tiffany Moy. Buyer: Bob Dumas Trust and W. Etienne Dumas. Townhouse within walking distance of Central Business District. 2 bedrooms, 2.5 baths. $805,000 ($6,000).

267 Riverside Drive. Seller: Richard and Fran Eber. Buyer: Alin and Dora Coman. Three-story Contemporary in Riverside. 4 bedrooms, 2.5 baths. $1,205,000 ($6,000).

1025 Stuart Road. Seller: Manfred Tamm Estate and Mary Tamm Trust.

Buyer: John and Mina Perry. Two-story Contemporary. 4 bedrooms, 4.5 baths. $799,000.

61 Westcott Road. Seller: Helmut and Eva Schwab. Buyer: Olivier and Elise Danos. Three-story Traditional.

5 bedrooms, 5.5 baths. $1,325,000 (-$165,000).

15 Jefferson Road. Seller: Mary Baeck. Buyer: Paul Duberstein and Nancy Talbot. 2.5-story Traditional.

4 bedrooms, 2 baths. $915,000 (-$70,000).

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means that companies like Google can track the location of cell phones and precisely measure the flow of traffic.

We made screenshots of travel times at 8 a.m. on at least six days when school was in session, which were not holidays or impacted by sudden bad weather or emergency construction work. A total of 166 trip time measurements were recorded. Trip times were the same in May and October of 2019, before Alexander Street closed. But what happened when the construction began?

We considered three randomly selected addresses for which the fastest route into Princeton would normally involve driving on Alexander. When Alexander closed, we expected these trip times to get longer because commuters would no longer be able to use the quickest way into Princeton. Trip times did get longer in each case — but only by about two or three minutes.

If drivers that normally used Alexander Street to get into Princeton made a detour because of the bridge replacement project, did that cause problems on other roads leading into town? We tried to test that by considering trips from other addresses for which the fastest route into downtown Princeton does not usually involve Alexander.

For these trips, drivers would normally use Princeton Pike, Washington Road, or Route 27, and might expect delays if traffic from Alexander Street was

displaced because of the construction project. But there was no evidence at all that displacement of Alexander Street traffic caused delays for these trips.

Travel time was the same before and during the bridge replacement project: For a small number of drivers who make local trips along the Alexander Street corridor, the bridge replacement project caused a bigger impact on travel time. We considered the time taken to commute from an address in the Canal Pointe Boulevard development into downtown Princeton. For this trip,

the only sensible route involves driving up Alexander Street. Delays were more like six minutes per trip, presumably reflecting the fact that these drivers were forced to make a bigger detour to find an alternative route into town: It is slightly surprising that delays caused by the Alexander Street bridge project are so small. Even after closing one of the busiest roads in Princeton, many commuters are not seeing big differences in travel times, and those who are impacted are usually experiencing delays of three minutes or less.

People are still definitely experiencing bad traffic at rush hour, but most of that traffic was there before Alexander Street closed. One possibility is that drivers were mostly able to adapt to the closure of Alexander Street by adjusting their route, the time they drove to work, or even by switching to mass transit. Mayor Liz Lempert and other officials from the town worked extensively with the state Department of Transportation and local business leaders to try to help drivers cope with the closure of Alexander Street.

Although our study rules out the idea that the Alexander Street road closure caused widespread, crippling delays, it is possible that there were significant traffic impacts for a subset of trips into or out of town. For example, anecdotally, delays in the evening rush hour have been worse than in the morning rush hour. A broader survey based on real-time traffic data might reveal such a difference. Shortly before it was disbanded by Council, the Princeton “Complete Streets Committee” was exploring such approaches with traffic expert Thomas Brennan. We also don’t yet know if there has been an increase or decrease in crashes since Alexander Street closed.

But for the most part, the closure of Alexander Street has been a challenge that Princeton seems to have taken in stride.

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Getting a read on Princeton’s new head librarian

By Michele Alperin

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s a youngster Jennifer Podolsky, Princeton Public Library’s new executive director as of midFebruary, always dreamt of being a teacher. And teaching is something she has pursued for her entire career, first as a media specialist in public schools, then as a consultant to librarians on connecting with small businesses, and most recently as an executive and mentor to librarians on her staff.

Qualities she exhibited in early childhood might have predicted her career path: her love of learning and school; her curiosity in pursuit of different types of knowledge; being the child in her family who “could always be caught in a corner reading a book”; and, as the middle child with two rough and tumble older brothers, and a younger brother and sister, “a quiet observer of people and behavior.”

Although all of Podolsky’s diverse experience contributed to her selection as Princeton’s new librarian, her most recent position as director of the East Brunswick Public Library showed she was up to the task. When she heard about that job after spending five years at the New Jersey State Library, she felt like she had the necessary experience.

Having worked with many library di-

rectors, she remembers thinking, “Oh, I can do that.”

“It was a big leap, but after working all over the state I felt I had gotten such great experience with what libraries do and what they are capable of doing,” Podolsky says.

‘When the opportunity came up, I thought, ‘Where I am is wonderful but who wouldn’t want to be at the Princeton library?’’

Podolsky says she worked well with East Brunswick Public Library’s large, “really wonderful” staff. “I enjoyed the mentorship aspect of my job, trying to motivate people,” she says.

Her first big task was to supervise a small-scale renovation. First, she had fun reevaluating the use of space in the library. “I was able to look at the floor and see what should and shouldn’t be in certain places. Coming in with an outside perspective, it was easy for me to see that points of service maybe weren’t where they should be,” she says.

She combined the separate customer service and reference desks into one and added signage to get people to what they needed in the library more efficiently.

The renovation made room for Podolsky to bring in a “maker space,” dubbed EB Create, for creative endeavors ranging from crafts to sewing to 3-D printing — by giving patrons access to a variety of cutting-edge tools.

The space includes a recording studio with microphones and sound-mixing equipment for audio, video, and podcasts; a green screen; sewing machines; and four MAC workstations.

Podolsky was also able to add “lending kits” that could be checked out, ranging from a telescope or a GoPro video camera to an acoustic guitar or ukulele.

So, loving her job in East Brunswick as she did, why did she decide to apply for the position of executive director in Princeton? “Princeton has such an outstanding reputation, it was hard to not be drawn to it,” Podolsky says. She also knew that both in staff and services to their community the two libraries were quite similar. And, she adds, “One other thing about Princeton you know is that the community and the municipality really supports the library.”

In the end, given Princeton’s position

Jennifer Podolsky brings a range of experiences to her new role as director of Princeton Public Library.

as a “nationally and probably world-renowned library,” Podolsky says, “when the opportunity came up, I thought, ‘Where I am is wonderful but who wouldn’t want to be at the Princeton library?’” Even her board president in East Brunswick, though sad to see her go, told her, “If we have to lose you, at least it was to Princeton.”

“We were looking for an outstanding librarian who was a visionary, who See PODOLSKY, Page 8

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looked forward as to where libraries were going and how to make Princeton at the forefront, and that’s exactly what we got,” says Ruth Miller, president of the Princeton Public Library’s board of trustees and member of the hiring team. In fact, Podolsky was rated as number one by every single person who interviewed her, Miller adds.

Not only was Podolsky experienced as an executive director, but Miller found her to be extremely thoughtful about the job. “She didn’t need to see everything stay the same. She had notions about the changing library environment, how STEM programs can interact with arts programs, and how the nature of the way kids read and absorb information is so different from the way it was when we were growing up.”

“First of all, she has the background, and second, she looks forward, and that was so important to all of us. She wasn’t somebody who was going to come in and maintain the status quo.

We wanted someone who would push us all to a new level.”

“We were also looking for someone with the kind of personality that made her appealing to a wide segment of the Princeton population, from little kids to a diverse set of teenagers to potential donors, and she has got that kind of personality. She is very appealing when

you sit down and talk to her. I’ve be- nity? What is important to it? What are come very fond of her even in the very the services the library provides? What short time she’s been around — I really are people needing? I’m also excited to think she’s terrific.” meet the business community and see One quality that Miller has noticed what can the library can do to better and admired is her willingness to adjust partner with it.” her ideas away from an initial impresA more immediate challenge is to sion after additional factors have been fill the vacuum left when former direcbrought to her attor Brett Bonfield tention. “She’s removed to his new ally flexible and ‘My goal now is to position last April. will be willing to “I’m focusing on adapt her ideas evaluate where we making sure the depending on are, what we’ve done, staff has a leader what makes sense in place — somefor her commu- what has worked and one who will listen nity,” Miller says. to what is happenPodolsky spent what hasn’t — by really ing and address her first weeks in listening.’ any concerns they Princeton trying may have.” She has to get to know already observed the community, including institutions, that her staff is hardworking and so nonprofits, businesses, and individuals passionate about what they do that they and all the library’s stakeholders, in- even come to board meetings. “I think cluding its 75-person staff. that’s wonderful that they have such a “The challenges are continuing to holistic view of wanting to know what make sure that Princeton stays the pil- is happening on every level,” she says. lar of excellence that it is in the comSumming up what she brings to the munity and that we continue to meet table, Podolsky says, “I think my backthe needs of the community,” Podol- ground working in all different types sky says. “My goal now is to evaluate of libraries helps me. I know what it is where we are, what we’ve done, what like to work in a school when I talk to has worked and what hasn’t — by re- teachers and school personnel. When I ally listening. And also getting to know talk to businesses, I’m attuned to what the community: What is this commu- the business community needs. And also in terms of technical outreach, I’m always looking in the forefront of what’s coming in that area.”

For a library director, she says, “Balance is the thing.” There are always new opportunities and much to be done, as well as people with different agendas, but the executive director has to listen and assess what the priorities should be, she says.

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Howell native, Podolsky recalls always being outside with her two older brothers and trying to keep up with them as they built things and rode bikes. But what she liked best was being in school. “I feel the same way now. If I could go back to college, I would. I enjoyed the learning, the knowledge, the many different topics,” she says.

Her favorite subject was English, along with social studies and history, and she had an active extracurricular life, participating in choir competitions from fifth grade on and, despite her shyness, performing in school musicals. In high school she sang in the chorus, did cheerleading, ran cross country, and competed in track and field.

Podolsky double majored at Rutgers in English and anthropology. Her first major was English literature, she says, “because I loved books so much.”

She also took education requirements, but while student teaching realized that “to be a classroom teacher wasn’t for me. As much as I loved it, there was something that was missing.”

Perhaps classrooms were “too structured” or “the behavioral stuff is what turned me off,” she says. But she hadn’t

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given up on literature and was considering a graduate degree in medieval literature or romance.

But her thinking changed after she took her first class in archeology, part of Rutgers’ anthropology department.

“I was so blown away; I was mesmerized by the field of archeology,” she recalls. She was particularly inspired by her teacher, a middle-aged woman in a male-dominated faculty who had started in archeology as a second career. Not only did this professor inspire Podolsky, but “it opened up a whole world in terms of what interested me, in terms of history and research.”

Already in her last semester at Rutgers, she decided to stay on for as long as necessary to add anthropology as a double major. Podolsky also did both an internship and graduate fieldwork at the Jamestown Rediscovery Archaeological Project in Virginia.

After graduating, Podolsky had two very different job offers: an archeological dig during the cold of winter and assistant editor at the publisher Reed Elsevier, and she chose the second. “That really changed my direction because even though I loved archaeology, and it was fun and interesting, working in a public company made me see libraries in a different light,” she says. Working on imprints like the Catholic Directory and Who’s Who, she was responsible for both shepherding books from copy to publication and for ensuring that all the information was up to date; in the process she interacted with librarians in the company’s small research library.

“After working in publishing, I thought libraries and research were things I was really good at and really enjoyed,” Podolsky recalls. “Whether for book publishing or archeology, I loved looking deeper to find information and making connections with information.” So she decided to go to library school at Rutgers.

As someone with very wide interests, she was surprised to learn that she had to choose a specific path. “I just wanted to work in libraries in general — I enjoyed everything about libraries,” she says.

She studied manuscripts and archives, references, and technology, but in the end was “leaning toward children’s librarian classes and school library media.”

“I think for me not only did it hearken back to my love of children’s books as a child, but that really tied it all together: I always wanted to be a teacher, so it made sense that I would be teaching this important skill, information literacy, how to understand and disseminate information,” Podolsky says.

She had hoped to teach high school English after college, but after earning her master’s degree she ended up working with K-8 students for five years, primarily as a media specialist in public schools. She particularly loved her three years at a K-5 school in Millburn.

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importance of information literacy in that school district,” she says. “The school library was integrated into curriculum planning and designing lesson plans.”

Although she loved being in the Millburn Public Schools, Podolsky was interested in working with older kids and also wanted to move back to Monmouth County, closer to the Jersey Shore. She moved to a media specialist position at Bayshore Middle School in the Middletown Township Public School District.

Her new job presented different types of challenges, as children were reaching an age where their pleasure in reading was “on the decline” and it was “difficult to keep them engaged.” Nonetheless, she says, “teaching kids how to do good, proper research and getting them to learn to like it as much as I did was fun for me.”

In 2009 she had been at Bayshore for a year, and the difficult economy was taking a toll on education. “Schools were losing personnel dramatically, and I was the last person hired,” she says.

Then out of the blue a job opportunity came her way at the New Jersey State Library, one she “was not expecting or looking for” but “wasn’t completely out of my wheelhouse.” Her duties would involve technical outreach to small businesses and entrepreneurs and helping public libraries increase their

engagement and partnership with local for businesses. During the latter, she businesses. met many people who stood in long Podolsky saw how intimidating it was lines at her table. “They had no idea for many public libraries to work with that a library can help a small business small businesses, and she found ways to person in so many different ways,” she create connections, for example, teach- says. ing libraries about resources useful to Experiences like these, she says, “resmall businesses, helping librarians de- ally turned my interest back into public velop plans to draw in businesses that libraries, where I had worked part-time might include getting involved in the while I was in graduate school and local merchants association, designat- while I was a school librarian.” ing a space in the “The State Lilibrary for busibrary opened that ness resources, ‘Libraries are an equalizer up for me. Before, providing con- — they give to everyone I was only worktinuing education ing with children, and skill-building equally. No matter but working with opportunities to small business businesses, and who you are, what your people and puboffering network- background is, what you lic library staff I ing opportunities got to see all a liamong business have, you can walk into a brary can do for owners. its community. I “Large com- library and get help.’ got to see all the panies have their different ways the own research library has an imteam, and for small businesses we can pact.” act like that — we can be your informaAs she saw different libraries all over tion professional,” she says. the state and the different things they Podolsky also provided statewide had accomplished, she says, “I was so information and help to libraries, like impressed by what libraries can do with coordinating a speaker from the Refer- whatever resources they have — librarence USA database, organizing state- ians are very creative. Libraries are wide professional development, and an equalizer — they give to everyone joining then-Lieutenant Governor Kim equally. No matter who you are, what Guadagno on a road show through your background is, what you have, New Jersey about statewide resources you can walk into a library and get

help. I thought this is a service I want to be more a part of.” And that thought led her to East Brunswick’s library.

“In terms of my career, I do what I love. It’s important to enjoy what you’re doing. To me, the most important thing is to feel rewarded by the work I do: Can I give back to the community I’m working with or for, and can I get and give equally is a rewarding partnership in my mind,” Podolsky says.

Podolsky, who lives in Freehold, already likes Princeton. “It is like a city amidst the suburban sprawl. I like that I can walk to a cafe but then go on a hike,” she says. “Being outside reenergizes me. If I’m feeling stressed or need to get my head on straight, I go to a park or go hiking.”

Podolsky has already found the Princeton community to be extremely welcoming. “People do love this library; I think people are even more engaged in the library than I ever expected. People really have a stake in what happens here, and people know what’s going on.”

“I want the institution to thrive and be innovative and even ground-breaking,” she says.

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Mercer County Medical Reserve Corps seeks volunteers

By Michele Alperin

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n the wake of September 11, the U.S. Office of the Surgeon General, established the Medical Reserve Corps (MRC) as a demonstration project, whose role to identify, train, and track volunteers who could strengthen local public health and serve if another human-made or natural disaster occurred.

MRC volunteer and East Windsor resident Al Grupper explains the government’s motivation: “When the World Trade Center fell, they had volunteers show up, but there was no management or structure. MRC has a chain of command and a mission.”

“We don’t self-mobilize; we are called out for an emergency,” Grupper says. “If Stephanie [Mendelsohn, public health nurse and coordinator of the Mercer County Medical Reserve Corps,] says ‘Come,’ we have to make sure our family is safe first, then we can go.”

Mendelsohn, a Pennington resident, says the MRC has already surveyed its volunteers to see if they would be available to staff a county hotline (to help handle the multitude of calls arriving at each municipality’s health department) and to do phone surveillance to check whether people who had been in contact with individuals with Covid-19

have any fever.

Mendelsohn became a public health “This is just the beginning stages; we nurse for Mercer County 13 years ago want as many volunteers as we can get,” and was asked to be the MRC coordiMendelsohn says. “We have 359 vol- nator after its creation. “MRC is here unteers, but with something like this for public health emergencies like this,” corona virus, not everyone is going to she says, referring to the Covid-19 vicome, because they are worried or have rus. A specific motivation for MRC’s someone at home who is sick or are a creation, she says, was fear of another doctor or nurse working overtime.” anthrax threat. “If we had to open a Potential volPOD (point of unteers include distribution) to healthcare pro- ‘I look at us not as first be able to hand fessionals and out prophylacresponders, but as onestudents in the tic medications healthcare profes- and-a-half responders. to the general sions, as well as public, we would nonmedical per- In case of a disaster or need hundreds sonnel to serve as and hundreds of administrators, an emergency, the first volunteers,” Menclerks, reception- responders are going to delsohn says. ists, or translators, The Mercer for situations like be overloaded; in many County Division sheltering or sortof Public Health ing out people in places we are there to has plans in place triage where some back them up,’ Grupper for many types people may not of emergencies, understand Eng- says.

Mendelsohn exlish. plains, and MRC To join the volunteers are inMRC, visit njlmn.njlincs.net and cre- vited to help out when they enact these ate an NJLMN account. Click on “My plans as if they were real emergencies.

Account” and then click on “Become “We have plans for a site, who would an MRC Volunteer” and complete the staff it, and how it would work,” she MRC application. says. “We have to exercise it to make

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sure it works, and sometimes we find we have to tweak it a little bit.”

Grupper has also participated in a sheltering exercise at the CURE Insurance Arena, an active shooter exercise in Hunterdon County, and some plane disaster exercises at Mercer County Airport, where people would need to be triaged before being sent to a medical facility.

During non-emergencies MRC volunteers help sign in people at health fairs and rabies clinics and staff tables providing information on emergency preparedness, tick-borne diseases, flu, and flu vaccines. “There is such a need for public health information, and to be able to have people who can answer questions and even hand it out is such a big service,” Mendelsohn says, noting that local health departments have limited staff.

The Mercer County MRC provides its volunteers with eight different trainings of two to three hours each, and on March 17 did one on the coronavirus.

Volunteers also have the chance to participate in emergency preparedness exercises and/or teach in their areas of expertise.

Grupper came to MRC via a friend who brought him to a shelter management class offered jointly at the Dempster Fire Training Center by MRC and

the American Red Cross. The class taught him how to manage an emergency shelter for people who are not able to stay in their homes. He decided to go ahead and join the MRC because he had lots of administrative experience, some of it in a medical setting.

During Hurricane Sandy, Grupper had a chance to use some of the skills he had developed by running a comfort station on a shift in Western Mercer County and also helping at Trenton’s Sovereign Bank Arena when people from Atlantic City were sheltered there before being moved to Rutgers University. “It was chaos,” he recalls. “A whole bunch of people that didn’t want to be there. We were separating them and trying to keep them calm until we knew what was the next step.”

“I look at us not as first responders, but as oneand-a-half responders. In case of a disaster or an emergency, the first responders are going to be overloaded; in many places we are there to back them up.

I look at us as a staff multiplier,” Grupper says.

Grupper’s focus at MRC today is on personal and family preparations for a disaster or emergency, for example, what provisions you would need to shelter in place for two weeks or more. “I am prepared to teach a class in the larger community if required,” he says.

For Andrea Webb, a registered nurse from East Windsor, her introduction to MRC came via a piece of mail whose envelope sported the words “Do you want to be a local hero?” After reading inside about the MRC, she realized this was something she had always wanted to do as different disasters hit our country.

“I’ve always wanted to volunteer as a registered nurse, put things in order, pitch in in an emergency, but unless you belong to an organization, you can’t just go to the site of an emergency and pitch in. I re-

ally felt as though I needed to give back to the community, and this was a perfect match,” Webb says.

“Everybody is there for the same thing — they want to volunteer and give of themselves, and different people have different niches they love,” Webb says. Dog lovers might volunteer at a rabies clinic, and long-term volunteers might lead trainings because they enjoy interacting with other volunteers.

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ebb and her husband, who is legally blind and not a medical professional, became volunteers two years ago. They’ve done a lot of training, and in an emergency she expects that her husband might answer phones at a telephone bank, whereas she might be assigned to take vital signs and blood pressure, administer medications, and talk to people in crisis.

Charles McHugh, who is board certified in emergency medicine, with a sub-concentration in hyperbaric medicine, a treatment for burns, thinks he likely heard about the MRC about a decade ago from one of the paramedics who regularly visited his emergency room.

Because one of his fields of specialty and instruction in the military was CBRNE (Chemical, Biological, Radiological, Nuclear, and Explosive) materials, a required module for MRC volunteers, Mendelsohn asked him to teach this class once or twice a year.

A few years ago the chief of police and sheriff requested that McHugh come out when an envelope received at Princeton’s Borough Hall looked suspicious and triggered an emergency response (although it turned out to be benign). He has also been the standby medic on the scene where MRC help had been requested at large gatherings. So far he has just had to See MRC, Page 12

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Mendelsohn is a native of Union, where her mother was a beautician and her father, an immigrant from Ukraine, was a cabinetmaker. After moving to Pennington in 1995, her first job was at the Hopewell Township Health Department, and in 2005 she moved to the Mercer County Division of Public Health. She says she loves being a public health nurse, going out in the community and trying to educate people to prevent diseases like hypertension and diabetes and to break the cycle of communicable diseases like corona viruses.

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serve Officer Training Corps in college, where he studied business, and joined the military in 1948, spending two years in active duty in Germany. When he returned to the States, he continued in the Army Reserve, working in civil affairs, and as a civilian was a contract manager, who did budgeting, costs, and scheduling for aerospace, construction, and research projects.

Webb moved around quite a bit as a youngster because her father was in the military. Born in Wiltshire, England, she also lived in Hawaii, Kentucky, Ohio, and New York, but has been in New Jersey since the late 1970s. Webb worked for Mobil Oil for 17 years in mid-management; for an insurance company; in a hospital intensive care unit; in a maximum security psychiatric hospital in Trenton; and an assisted living facility in Tinton Falls and a medical daycare in Princeton.

McHugh was born and raised in Princeton, where his mother taught second grade for 30-something years.

His father was a carpenter. Now retired from hospital work, McHugh has a small private practice and spends five days a month in Texas, teaching for the army, where he is a retired colonel.

Looking to the current health crisis around the coronavirus, Webb says, “People are in a panic right now.

Things are happening all over the place, and information and instructions are changing from minute to minute. A catastrophe like this is one of the reasons I joined the MRC, so I could go out into the community and still protect myself.”

Volunteering for the Mercer MRC, she says, is not only a wonderful opportunity to do things for the common good, but it also helps the underserved populations by teaching them how to avoid communicable diseases.”

That’s why she’s trying to recruit other people, including certified nursing assistants. “We need every pair of hands we can get.”

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B I - M O N T H LY N E W S F R O M C A P I TA L H E A LT H

ROTHMAN ORTHOPAEDICS SURGEON SPECIALIZING IN RARE BONE AND SOFT TISSUE CANCERS TO LEAD CAPITAL HEALTH’S SARCOMA AND ORTHOPAEDIC ONCOLOGY PROGRAM The Region’s Only Program for Bone and Soft Tissue Cancers DR. JOHN ABRAHAM, an internationally recognized orthopaedic oncology surgeon, now offers advanced treatment options for rare bone and soft tissue cancers at Capital Health Cancer Center. As part of Capital Health’s ongoing partnership with Rothman Orthopaedic Institute, Dr. Abraham, founder of the Orthopaedic Oncology Service at Rothman Orthopaedics, now offers orthopaedic oncology services at Capital Health Medical Center – Hopewell. Dr. Abraham has 15 years of experience in dealing with bone and soft tissue sarcomas and metastatic cancer to the skeleton and has served as chief of Rothman’s Orthopaedic Oncology Service for nearly 10 years.

“As we continue to expand our Cancer Center to provide care for a broader range of patients, it is exciting to partner with a specialized surgeon like Dr. Abraham,” said Dr. Cataldo Doria, medical director of Capital Health Cancer Center. “As one of the nation’s leading orthopaedic oncologists, he brings significant experience and extensive training from some of the most prestigious institutions in the country right here to our community so our patients can receive the best possible care closer to home.”

Through its partnership with Rothman Orthopaedics, Capital Health now offers advanced surgical services, including limbsparing techniques and bone/joint prostheses for bone sarcoma, complete surgical removal for soft tissue sarcoma and plastic/ reconstructive options, minimally invasive prophylactic fixation (insertion of metal into the affected bone to strengthen it and prevent breaks), joint revision (replacement of joints that have failed as the result of cancer or due to significant bone loss), and fracture repair using metal pins, rods, screws, or plates to hold the damaged bone in place.

In addition to his expertise in managing sarcoma, Dr. Abraham deals with metastatic cancer to the bone. Cancer that starts in the breast, prostate, lung, kidney, or other sites can often spread to the bones. This can cause pain at first, but when a tumor gets large enough it can cause debilitating breaks called pathologic fractures

and other complications. Dr. Abraham now provides a range of advanced surgical services for patients in the Mercer/Bucks County region who are living with bone and soft tissue cancer.

“Cancers that start in tissue such as bone, cartilage, muscle, nerves, and fat require very specialized care,” said Dr. Abraham.

“I’m excited to collaborate with the multidisciplinary team at Capital Health Cancer Center and offer the region’s only Sarcoma Oncology program to treat these rare and potentially devastating tumors.”

Dr. Abraham graduated magna cum laude from Harvard University and graduated with high honors from Yale School of Medicine, where he received the prestigious Nicholas Giarman Award for Cancer Research. He then returned to Harvard to complete an orthopaedic surgery residency, where he also completed his orthopaedic oncology fellowship based at Massachusetts General Hospital and Children’s Hospital Boston.

Dr. Abraham was then elected to the faculty of the Dana Farber Cancer Center, one of the leading sarcoma centers in the world, where he served as their primary orthopaedic oncologist for five years. During this time, he was also a member of the arthroplasty service at the Brigham and Women’s Hospital of Harvard Medical School in Boston, and developed significant expertise in joint replacement procedures and advanced revision procedures for failed hip and knee replacements. Dr. Abraham has also served as the director of the Jefferson Musculoskeletal Oncology Center at the Kimmel Cancer Center and was an associate professor of Orthopaedic Surgery and Radiation Oncology at Thomas Jefferson University. Dr. Abraham has been named a “Top Doctor” in Philadelphia for 10 years and has been named as a “Best Doctor in America” by Best Doctors. Dr. Abraham sees patients in Blue Bell, PA and Newtown, PA.

To make an appointment with Dr. Abraham, please call 1.800.321.9999. To learn more about Capital Health Cancer Center, visit capitalhealth.org/cancer.

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CAPITAL HEALTH BRINGS TRUSTED WOMEN’S HEALTH SPECIALISTS TO BROWNS MILLS New Office Provides Comprehensive Obstetric and Gynecologic Care Beginning April 2020, Capital Health OB/GYN – Browns Mills, part of Capital Health Medical Group, will offer comprehensive women’s health services in Pemberton Township and fill an important need for patients in eastern Burlington County and nearby communities in New Jersey. The new office is located in the medical office building on the Deborah Heart and Lung Center campus at 6 Earlin Avenue, Suite 290 in Browns Mills, NJ. The Capital Health OB/GYN – Browns Mills team includes DRS. ROBERT BERK, NEIL BLUEBOND, AMY HARVEY O’KEEFFE, MARK KUHN and ANNE WALKER, experienced and board certified physicians who have been providing care to women in Lower Bucks County, PA for almost 30 years before moving to their new location. In addition to providing women with comprehensive prenatal and obstetrical services, these physicians also offer annual women’s health exams, in-office hysteroscopy, open and minimally invasive (laparoscopic) surgery, cancer screenings, and minor surgical services.

“Being a Regional Perinatal Center, including neonatal intensive care for most at-risk deliveries, Capital Health has a long tradition of providing the highest level of maternity and women’s health

services in central New Jersey, “ said Dr. Mark Kuhn, co-lead physician at Capital Health OB/GYN – Browns Mills. “We’re excited to become part of that tradition and bring our expertise in obstetric and gynecologic care to women in and around Browns Mills.

“As a group in Bucks County, PA, we had a fantastic working relationship with Capital Health for many years, but we are thrilled to officially be part of Capital Health Medical Group,” said Dr. Robert Berk, co-lead physician at Capital Health OB/GYN − Browns Mills. “In addition to connecting our patients with a growing number of women’s health services, they also have convenient access to the other specialists and comprehensive services at Capital Health’s hospitals and outpatient facilities.”

Capital Health OB/GYN – Browns Mills accepts most insurance and joins Capital Health Medical Group’s network of more than 400 physicians and other advanced care providers who offer primary, specialty, and surgical care.

Call 609.896.1400 to schedule an appointment.

Who Delivers Babies at Capital Health?

The following physicians and midwives deliver babies as part of Capital Health Maternity Services provided at Capital Health Medical Center – Hopewell.

From routine deliveries to highrisk needs, they work in careful coordination with our team to provide the finest family-centered care, including a full range of prenatal, obstetrical, postpartum, neonatal, and pediatric options to make sure that your new family has the greatest chance for a healthy beginning. In addition, our Regional Perinatal Center at Capital Health Medical Center – Hopewell includes Mercer County’s only Level III Neonatal Intensive Care Unit for at-risk births.

There’s really only one choice for a hospital that meets all of your labor and delivery needs – Capital Health.

The following offices accept most insurances. If you do not have insurance, please contact Capital Health OB/GYN – Trenton (433 Bellevue Avenue, Trenton, NJ) by calling 609.394.4111. (Monday – Friday, 7:30 am – 4:30 pm).

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CAPITAL HEALTH OB/GYN LAWRENCEVILLE | 609.896.1400 123 Franklin Corner Road, Suite 214, Lawrenceville, NJ 08648 HAMILTON | 609.896.1400 1401 Whitehorse-Mercerville Road, Suite 212, Hamilton, NJ 08619 LANGHORNE | 215.750.7771 | 540 North Woodbourne Road, Langhorne, PA 19047 YARDLEY | 609.896.1400 | 909 Floral Val Boulevard, Yardey, PA 19067 BORDENTOWN | 609.896.1400 163 North Route 130, Building 2, Suite C, Bordentown, NJ 08505 PHYSICIANS Sapna Balwani, MD Gwen Grant, DO Karen Leedom, MD Paul Loeb, DO

Kira Przybylko, MD Jay S. Rothberg, MD William Stanell, MD Jerrold M. Synder, DO Audrey Tashjian, MD David S. Tannenbaum, DO Traci L. Cook, DO

CERTIFIED NURSE MIDWIVES Christine Beaghley, CNM Kitan Ellerson, CNM

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CAPITAL HEALTH SELECTED AS SITE FOR STATEWIDE VIOLENCE INTERVENTION PROGRAM One of Nine in New Jersey and the Only Hospital in Mercer and Burlington County Region to Receive Grant Funding As part of a statewide effort to combat violence as a public health crisis in our community, Capital Health has been selected as the only hospital in the Mercer and Burlington County region, and one of nine in New Jersey, to be a host site for the New Jersey Hospital-Based Violence Intervention Program (NJHVIP). The program aims to connect hospitals and medical facilities with existing community organizations that provide victim assistance and work to reduce violence.

Governor Phil Murphy, Attorney General Gurbir S. Grewal, and former Congresswoman Gabby Giffords announced the grant winners at the Mary Bethune Center in Jersey City, NJ on January 29.

“Hospital-based violence intervention programs (HVIPs) are proven to help reduce repeat injury, and reaching victims of violence at the time of crisis is the key to their success,” said Al Maghazehe, president and CEO of Capital Health. “With medical treatment and recovery as a starting point, Capital Health will help victims connect with our community partners who provide the social services, counseling, and education they need to truly heal and break the cycle of violence that has become so prevalent in some neighborhoods.”

Capital Health’s Hospital-Based Violence Intervention Program will be managed through its level II Bristol-Myers Squibb Trauma Center at Capital Health Regional Medical Center in Trenton and the Capital Health Institute for Urban Care. Bristol-Myers Squibb Trauma Center at Capital Health Regional Medical Center offers advanced emergency care for severely injured patients involved in motor vehicle crashes, falls, and assaults with knives, guns, or blunt objects. Capital Health Institute for Urban Care works to advance the health and well-being of Trenton residents by growing and aligning Capital Health’s services with those of its local partner

Present at the news conference that announced grant winners were Kim Watson and Dr. Eric Schwartz from the Capital Institute for Urban Care, Marian Moore and Dr. Dominick Eboli from the BristolMyers Squibb Trauma Center at Capital Health Regional Medical Center, Michelle Ruess from the Trenton Health Team, former congresswoman Gabbie Giffords, and New Jersey Governor Phil Murphy.

organizations. Capital Health’s selection as an NJHVIP site marks an important expansion of the Institute’s mission with a holistic approach to the violence crisis.

The NJHVIP program is being launched with $20 million in federal funding from the Victims of Crime Act (VOCA), the largest VOCA award ever in the nation for an HVIP. These funds will support all nine NJHVIP sites for a period of 21 months.

Capital Health Institute for Urban Care works with a robust network of community partners in the City of Trenton to improve medical care while overcoming the complex social determinants of health. To learn more about the Institute, visit capitalhealth.org/urbancare.

The Bristol-Myers Squibb Trauma Center at Capital Health Regional Medical Center is a Level II New Jersey statedesignated Trauma Center. One of only 10 designated trauma centers in New Jersey, it is the regional referral center for severely injured patients in Mercer County and adjacent parts of Somerset, Hunterdon, Burlington, and Middlesex counties as well as nearby areas of Pennsylvania. To learn more, visit capitalhealth.org/trauma.

Introducing Capital Healthy Living An In-Home Program for Independent Seniors

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To learn more – and to find out how you can become a part of Capital Healthy Living – contact us at 609-537-7087 or HealthyLiving@CapitalHealth.org.

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McCaffrey’s Food Market at Prince­ ton Shopping Center is open daily from 6 to 8 a.m. for shoppers ages 60 and over. Customers will not be asked for ID, but employees reserve the right to ask shoppers to leave. McCaffrey’s is also providing wipes and hand sanitizer throughout the store for customer use. The store is open until 8 p.m. daily. For more information visit www. mccaffreys.com.

Whole Earth Center, at 360 Nassau Street, has reserved one hour each morning for shoppers ages 65 and up.

Mondays through Saturdays, the store opens from 8 to 9 a.m. for seniors and remains open until 6 p.m. Sundays the store opens from 9 to 10 a.m. for seniors and remains open until 6 p.m.

The store is also allowing customers to place deli orders by phone. To maintain social distancing, only 50 customers at a time are permitted in the store. For more information, including deli ordering instructions, visit www. whole­earthcenter.com.

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Among the essential retail businesses allowed to remain open were liquor stores. Princeton’s newest liquor store, Bottle King at 775 State Road, is operating on reduced hours. It is open Monday through Saturday, 10 a.m. to 7 p.m., and Sunday, 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. www.bottleking.com.

The Princeton Corkscrew on Hulfish Street is offering curbside pickup and free local delivery on orders over $50. The physical store is closed to customers, but purchases can be made by phone, email, online, and through the store’s mobile app. Payment must be made by credit card when the order is placed. Operating hours are Monday through Saturday, 10 a.m. to 8 p.m., and Sunday, noon to 7 p.m. www. princetoncorkscrew.com Public Wine on Witherspoon Street is offering curbside pickup and delivery for orders placed by phone or email. www.publicprinceton.com

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The rituals that save us

By Pia de Jong

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t half-past eleven in the morning, the time when he is supposed to open, the owner of my favorite Indian restaurant puts three sticks of incense in the ground by the bush in front of his door. He lights them with a match and then waves his hand through the fresh smoke. At the appropriate distance of six feet, I sniff the sweetish, musky scent of patchouli.

He pauses to inhale the aroma, then locks his front door with three firm twists. “Howdy!� the neighbor boy greets me from his front yard when I walk past. As always, he is on the lookout with his red watering can. He’s waiting for me to raise my hand to him with the same “Howdy!� Then he jumps up and down with pleasure.

At home, I take the leaves of green tea from the Japanese box and crumble them into my cup, rubbing them between my thumb and index finger.

I squeeze a slice of lemon on top and wait until the leaves turn lighter. Then, after the water stops boiling, I pour it into my cup. I know, it’s not the official way, but that’s how I’ve been do-

ing it for many years. With my hands cradling the cup, I take the first sip that tickles my throat.

Now that nothing is certain anymore, rituals give us something to hold on to. These might be pointless in the grand scheme of things, but ever so important for our peace of mind. With the care we devote to them, we mark the moment. The incense sticks, the unchanging greeting, my swirling tea leaves, they are steps on the stairways of time on which we stand still. For a moment we have the illusion that we can freeze time and cherish it in our hands, so that the moment is not lost.

Rituals are pause buttons for life.

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ecause even though everything is being called into question, and we can only fear what is to come, we will soon pick up the thread of the life again, the one we once took for granted. Then we finish what we started. Make new plans and put new appointments in our calendar, for over a month, or after the summer, or next year.

Later, later, when the restaurants are full again and we no longer have to stand back or bump elbows, but can put a carefree, comforting arm around

each other’s shoulders. When children no longer pose a danger to their parents and parents to their children. And when the beaming birthday boy with his paper crown is again celebrated in the classroom.

In the meantime, daffodils are popping up everywhere. The clear weather seems to give us some peace and quiet.

Spring is back with all its colors and scents. Snowdrops, shrubs, blooming forsythia, the first delicate blossoms.

In front of my window, the magnolia is

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about to erupt with colors. Just like in the old days, in my parents’ garden, I lie on my back under the tree and am enchanted by that cloud of pink that appears out of nowhere and stays with us so briefly, yet so memorably.

Nature also has her small rituals.

Pia de Jong is a Dutch writer who lives in Princeton. Her bestselling memoir, “Saving Charlotte,� was published in 2017 in the U.S. She can be contacted at pdejong@ias.edu.

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