COVID-19 Archives » Mike Frost https://mikefrost.net/tag/covid-19/ AUTHOR | SPEAKER | MISSIOLOGIST | AGITATOR Mon, 16 Mar 2020 02:21:37 +0000 en-AU hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.4.4 https://i0.wp.com/mikefrost.net/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/cropped-MF.png?fit=32%2C32&ssl=1 COVID-19 Archives » Mike Frost https://mikefrost.net/tag/covid-19/ 32 32 116298986 Coronavirus is freaking my intellectually disabled sister out https://mikefrost.net/coronavirus-is-freaking-my-intellectually-disabled-sister-out/ https://mikefrost.net/coronavirus-is-freaking-my-intellectually-disabled-sister-out/#comments Mon, 16 Mar 2020 02:08:51 +0000 https://mikefrost.net/?p=29392 I have a 60-year-old sister named Joanne. She lives with an intellectual disability. It used to annoy me when people asked me what Jo’s “mental age” was. It’s not as simple as saying she’s like a six-year-old or an eight-year-old. She lives in a group home near me, catches public transport, works at a social […]

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]]> https://mikefrost.net/coronavirus-is-freaking-my-intellectually-disabled-sister-out/feed/ 9 29392 Love in the time of COVID-19 https://mikefrost.net/love-in-the-time-of-covid-19/ https://mikefrost.net/love-in-the-time-of-covid-19/#comments Thu, 12 Mar 2020 01:24:14 +0000 https://mikefrost.net/?p=29384 In his novel, Love in the Time of Cholera, Colombian Nobel prize winning author Gabriel García Márquez tells the story of the complicated marriage of Dr. Juvenal Urbino and his wife Fermina. Urbino is a passionless man, a medical scientist, devoted to order and progress, committed to the eradication of cholera. Before their marriage, Fermina […]

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