COLUMBUS, Ohio – When the pandemic passed the one-year mark, Lisa Phillips wasn't exactly eager to walk down memory lane.
She had developed symptoms and quarantined with a suspected case of COVID-19 last spring, lost her mother to the disease in July and been hospitalized in November from what she describes as a nervous breakdown fueled by grief and isolation.
But Phillips also wasn’t ready to delete the apps that provide those reminders that showed her each day what she'd shared on social media just a year earlier.
That pain, she says, shouldn't be forgotten. So she still wanted to save the memories — but for later. As we navigate these weeks that are unspooling a year after March, April and May 2020, memories from earlier in the COVID-19