So What Makes You So Sure Normal Is A Good Thing?

Keith A. Owens
3 min readApr 3, 2021
Is this the normal we want to go back to?/Photo by Cassandra Hall on Scopio

Not long after the pandemic became accepted as a real thing among those tuned into the reality station, the word ‘normal’ started cropping up quite a bit in stories and conversations dealing with the topic of what is supposed to come next. There was — and still is — this yearning to return to solid ground. So supposedly, whenever we return to ‘normal’, then we will all be back on solid ground and all…

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Keith A. Owens

Longtime Detroit-based journalist, musician and writer. Co-founder of Detroit Stories Quarterly.