

A Tonic for Our Times
I had a quiet birthday earlier this month with my husband and daughters, a chocolate Betty Crocker cake (hard to beat), and perhaps my favorite present of all time--this full set of books: I started reading the first book in the series, and almost instantly it was like being in a Calgon ad. Remember those? Eventually the book ended, and I had to return to the trauma and chaos of the Capitol insurrection and its aftermath. Nothing else managed to take me away, and I started pu