A Plate of Pandemic
Published Quarterly on the Solstices and Equinoxes
Creativity in Times of Crisis
Jeanne Parr Lemkau is a writer and clinical psychologist who lives in Chapel Hill North Carolina. She is a former Peace Corps volunteer and Professor Emerita of Family Medicine and Community Health at Wright State University. She considers climate change and environmental degradation to be the most significant world-wide threat to mental health.
When I was a curious five year old, I asked my Dad what he did when he went to work each day. He replied that once in his office at the university, he drank a magic potion that made him shrink. Once tiny, he studied things that were even tinier than he was. At the […]