A Cure for the New Yearâs Scaries
What is time, anyway?
Jan. 6, 2021
Iâve always found the turn of the calendar year difficult â coming down off the adrenaline and joy of the holidays and crashing into several solid months of work, school, dark and cold. I try to temper that letdown by planning things to look forward to for my family, and for me: a trip to visit my in-laws in California over the kidsâ school break, dinner with old friends or a comedy show with my husband.
I canât make any of these arrangements for 2021, and I canât do the typical summer planning that starts around this time. Who knows if there will be camp this year? Every time I try to project a future in my mind, it feels like my brain is traveling down a smooth road and then slamming into a brick wall.