Leftover Ham - © Elise Bauer via simplyrecipes.com

I’ve been posting about various aspects of the emotional stress that pandemic privations can deal us, especially at times like this when we’ve had a global setback in our war with the novel coronavirus. But I’ve come to a conclusion that a spoonful of Sugar can, indeed, help the medicine go down…Read More →

Depressed Teen Girl - © highfocuscenters.com

Have you noticed the relative abundance of news and lifestyle articles lately about the emotional effects on us all of the continuing (and re-surging) COVID-19 pandemic crisis? As you might expect, opportunists are taking advantage of warnings that the pandemic is making us more depressive and edgy…Read More →

Stuffing Chips - © Michael Moss - Salt Sugar Fat Book

Sorry for the sarcasm in that headline. The situation is nothing to joke about. But it bears affirmation that we’re officially into the start of the the next phase of the COVID-19 crisis: Phase 2 of COVID on top of our usual fall Flu season. A lot of folks are already full of fear and loathing about how to deal with it…Read More →