My husband loves to write blogs with song lyrics in them, and I guess that’s rubbing off on me. So with apologies to Bruce Springsteen, I’ll explain myself. Normalcy is a long time coming, isn’t it? Hard to stay focused and positive when the crises in our country just keep coming and coming. Hard to stay upbeat when day after day the news is worse and worse. Covid-19. Quarantine. Racial distress. Election year. Killer hornets. Australian bush fires. Brexit. The wildly fluctua

We're in for it, folks. Not only is the Covid-19 pandemic rampaging around our nation, seemingly without any checks, but there will be a second, more problematic pandemic behind it. Our mental health. Specifically, grief. It’s not my intention to get political here, but, regardless of your beliefs, it cannot be denied that hundreds of thousands of Americans have died of Covid-19. And millions more have been affected by the efforts to ameliorate the pandemic, whether those eff