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Well, it’s official. The Seasonal Affective Disorder which I previously suffered in northern winters has, after eleven years in Florida, become a mirror-image summer malady. One where the environment (and my inability to adapt to it, despite major effort) prevents me from fully living. Where I slowly and inexorably lose my joie de vivre as I forego things that are important to my well-being. Just as I used to in those gone-but-not-forgotten winters, I start out determined to

Today yet another heat advisory has been issued here, bringing the total to six over the past ten days. (For those of you fortunate enough to be unacquainted with the phenomenon, this means that temperatures in the 90s actually have a heat index of 105-110 degrees, making being outdoors for any length of time unhealthy as well as unpleasant.) Given that my tolerance for the heat seems to be decreasing as my birthdays increase, and given that I generally walk everywhere, I’ve