Discomfort Foods

I love food!  A little too much maybe? Humans love delicious food to celebrate the good times, and we use food to soothe ourselves during challenging times. Self-soothing with food is something to which most of us relate, though I’ve heard people say they don’t like the term ‘self-soothing’ or Read more

Fear vs. Faith

Before electric lights and heaters, the long, cold dark of winter practically knit itself into endlessness at winter solstice.  People had to face the dark with fear or with faith.  Winter holy days began being celebrated to bolster our faith in the darkest part of the year, and celebrate the Read more