By Andy Furman

NKyTribune staff writer

Something good did come out of COVID – at least for Dr. Maria “Cari” Garriga.

“I was looking for something to do, during that time,” the Foreign Language professor at Thomas More University told the lunch crowd at the weekly Covington Rotary Club meeting at the Radisson Hotel this week.

“I wanted to become a certified Health and Wellness coordinator,” the native of Puerto Rico said. “I just couldn’t wait to tell people what to do.”

That’s exactly what teachers – and wives do – at least that’s what she originally thought – tell people what to do.

“It doesn’t work that way,” she admitted. The Covington resident who has been at Thomas More seven years said she had a “transformation.”

She thought it better to not tell people what to do – as a healt

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