What Is Freedom?

So I was watching my son play on an empty playground today, and I found myself thinking about freedom. You know, Masha and I would be, in the absence of the pandemic, in the prime of our lives right now. We have been extremely fortunate. Here are some of the ways I feel we’ve beaten the odds:

• We found love in each other — you take this for granted with married couples, but there were long stretches of our lives when we felt we’d…