How to heal through life writing
“Learning to write about trauma helps you to process the painful experience, and gives you the life skills to overcome it”
When I went back to school for my Ph.D. in psychology, I studied life stories. One aspect of that topic is how writing about negative life experiences can help us overcome the pain, grief, or anger we associate with them. This article offers some advice on how to do that.
A Brief History of the TV Dinner
“Thanksgiving’s most unexpected legacy is heating up again”
If, like me, you grew up in the 1950s and early 1960s, you probably remember Swanson’s TV Dinners. Here’s a brief history of how and why they came into being.
COVID-19 patients are developing ‘brain fog.’ But what does that mean?
I have fibromyalgia. One symptom of this and other autoimmune conditions can be periods of “brain fog,” a fuzzy feeling of being not quite fully present in the world, of being not quite fully in touch with reality. Researchers are now finding that patients who have long-term COVID-19 symptoms sometimes experience this same feeling, a symptom often dismissed by doctors.
for millions of other people with chronic illnesses, some of which seemed to have began with infections, constant brain fog is already their reality. Now, they’re hoping that this global pandemic will draw attention to a condition that has so drastically affected their lives.
Night Terrors
“The creator of ‘The Twilight Zone’ dramatized isolation and fear but still believed in the best of humanity.”
You remember The Twilight Zone and Rod Serling, right? “The show ran from 1959 to 1964, and by the time it went off the air the phrase ‘twilight zone’ had entered the language as a kind of shorthand for whatever feels eerie or strange.”
Andrew Delbanco discusses The Twilight Man: Rod Serling and the Birth of Television by Koren Shadmi.
Death rates have fallen by 18% for hospitalized COVID–19 patients as treatments improve
It’s hard to find good news amidst rising virus spikes and perilous pandemic predictions, but here’s a little bit.
He was an American paratrooper. She withstood bombing in England. 75 years later they remember love born in wartime
And here we are back to life stories. I’m always on the lookout for good stories like this one, which appear most often in local publications. The best such stories, like this one, are full of scrapbook memories.
© 2020 by Mary Daniels Brown
Retreading for Retirement 