All I can say is, this too shall pass. Or at least not cluster so much. Life gets clumpy sometimes, and you appear to be in a clump right now. If you need to go catatonic for a bit, do so. Whatever you can simplify or cut out of your life, do it. If all you can do is get up in the morning, and this is paraphrased from Ariel Gore, then do that. Get a housekeeper, stare out of the window more, take naps, drink more tea and less coffee. Cry.

Me, I spin--like, make yarn. I read old craft magazines and dream about projects I'll never make. I stop reading and talking about politics for a bit--today I was feeling really stressed, for instance, and politics was literally making me sick so I closed the computer and told my online sparring partners that I was taking a short vacation. I eat more protein and fat, and fewer carbs. I throw stuff out/freecycle it. I take the girls for walks around the block. I drink jasmine tea. I take Rescue Remedy. I find some girlfriends and laugh a lot. It helps, but when I'm in periods like this it never entirely goes away.

And writing always helps. Just come here and dump.

Lynn Siprelle, Editor