Palm Springs Desert Sun This year of COVID-19 has changed the way we live, clearly, but in a subtle way it's also changed the way we talk. There are words and phrases that we say now without a second thought that one year ago we didn't even know existed. At this point, "Pfizer or Moderna?" is a perfectly acceptable pick-up line, right up there with, "Your Zoom room or mine?" I remember last March I asked my 7-year-old niece how school was going, and she said in the cutest little way: "Um good, Uncle Shad." I asked her the same thing today, and she said. "Asynchronous learning isn't as constructive as the hybrid model, but I'm in cohort A, so that's cool." Aww, they grow up so fast.