In the Time of Covid

Anne Pollard
6 min readJan 18, 2021

Episode Two: On the Proper Name for Mitch McConnell

Run-on sentence warning. Readers are to be alerted that the following sentence, while lengthy, reflects my current state of mind, and possibly that of many others. As such, I will leave my opening statement at its present length and hope my three readers will indulge me.

Last week, upon learning that Mitch McConnell, the majority house leader, will not hold an emergency Senate session to deal with the unprecedented second impeachment of a man who rallied a mob of white supremacists planning on terrorizing or even…

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Anne Pollard

I write. I read. I raise children. I rattle the bushes. I stand on hillsides outside Florence and shout, "Beauty!"