Guest Column: CNCC charts new path during coronavirus pandemic

At first softly, then with growing strength, my mother and I began singing: “you just gotta ignite the light, and let it shine. Just own the night, like the Fourth of July, ’cause baby you’re a firework. Come on show ’em what you’re worth…” 

By the chorus — “Boom! Boom! Boom!” — our off-key rendition of Katy Perry’s song Firework had the full attention of the other patients and nurses in the long-term…