Why Is Everything Different?

Sophia and her grandma are out walking in the park, surrounded by nature. “In nature, nothing is perfect, and everything is perfect.” Sophia is thankful that her grandpa didn’t die from the Coronavirus, but she questions all that is happening around her in real life and what she sees and hears in the media. She is worried. As in nature, Sophia learns that nothing is perfect, but one must be hopeful and determined that good things will happen, and that love is, of course, constant! Through her grandma’s wisdom, Sophia is nurtured and experiences the beauty of life through nature.

Dena Levin was trained as a speech/language pathologist at Brooklyn College, receiving both B.A. and M.S. degrees. Throughout her professional life, she predominately worked in school settings. In fact, in 2014, the New York Daily News profiled her as a Hometown Hero in Education. She also taught public speaking at Kansas State University and was a supervisor of student clinicians in the Speech and Hearing Clinic at Brooklyn College. She has written two plays, Keep Walking and Hide and Seek. A novel, The Unexpected Connection, based loosely on her life as a prematurely single dating widow; and two children’s books, Let’s Be Kind Again and Why Is Everything Different? Ms. Levin enjoys imparting important messages in her writings using an engaging style.