It took me years to remember and use “Ctrl C” and “Ctrl V” on my computer keyboard for copying and pasting stuff into my documents. I’m very proficient with a computer mouse and I am known as a race-car-like-right-clicker. It seems so rudimentary, but this quick shortcut helped me to paste text when I was stranded on an island without my typical, home, computer, desktop arrangement to fall back on. And, no, doing work on a beach isn’t a professional shortcut, it is just sheer

If there was ever a more trying time in our society than now--with a COVID-19 pandemic attacking us, racial unrest, major cities in ruin, political gas-lighting and catastrophic natural disasters happening, simultaneously, all over the world, I’ve learned more about myself as a recovering alcoholic and even more about how to support my friends, colleagues and even acquaintances who have either testified about or ignored their tumultuous relationship with alcohol. We all have