In early February, before the pandemic ravaged the globe, my wife Helen and I were guests celebrating Chinese New Year with my former student and lifelong friend, Stephen Wong, owner of several Chinese restaurants from Worcester County to Cape Cod. About 200 of his employees and their families reveled with us as dragons danced and cymbals crashed, all proclaiming joyously the Year of the Rat.2020, of course, would tragically become the year of the […]