With her painting, baking and near-constant gardening, Stephanie Hollowell kept busy at home even before efforts to stem the coronavirus pandemic meant she had to stay inside the Dallas, Texas house she calls her little kingdom.

She didn't invite people to come taste her prize-winning cookies, or sample the sweet ground cherries that she grows. A proud introvert, public health orders to stay put suited her just fine.

"So many people are experiencing the painful aspects of this," said Hollowell, an air traffic controller who took early retirement five years ago, when she was 50. "But basically my life has not changed one single bit."