How to Raise the Dead
January is always a hard crash for me. Each year, the pleasant lead-up to Thanksgiving is followed by a fast-clipped Christmas season right on its heels. New Year’s Eve quickly closes everything out in a disappointing mélange of unmet expectations and forced revelry. And then, for the next of couple months, it’s a descent into the long, cold darkness of midwinter. For those like me who suffer…