Dear Readers, I hope you and your loved ones are safe and healthy. Here in Massachusetts, we've been staying at home for over two months now, and what began as a scary and surreal experience has only become more so. These are some of the ways I’m coping with the high levels of stress and uncertainty. Practices that, overall, are helping to keep me (relatively) calm and balanced. Do any resonate with you? Organizing myself on paper. To balance out all the screen time and notif

2020 Update: How are you doing? I'm feeling all over the place. I’m up, I’m down. I have moments of, “I can do this. I have a lot to be grateful for. There are some real silver linings here.” Then, within hours, I can completely swing to the other direction. I go from feeling competent to feeling like a failure, from gratitude to depression, from optimism to despair. These internal swings, combined with the external flood of information (not to mention the fatigue of trying t