After a lengthy hiatus, the PSA o’ the Week – aka Public Service Announcement – returns with a simple message. While we may think of life two or three hundred years ago as peaceful and idyllic, the person living in 1716 or 1816 certainly had occasional stress and anxiety. (People living in 1916 definitely did.) Sometimes their stressors were life-threatening, …
The Hump Day Hiatus
In a week that began with yet another despicable act of terror, let’s visit a place of peace and beauty. As Thoreau wrote, “In wildness is the salvation of the world.” It’s not that in beautiful mountains or towering Sequoias or idyllic beaches we will find the solutions to hunger, poverty, crime, disease or terrorism. But we are reminded that …