Procrastibaking, comfort baking, distractibaking, even rage baking – sometimes the best way to deal with strong emotion is to get into the kitchen and reach for the mixing bowl and the cookbooks. With anxieties at an all-time high thanks to COVID-19, enforced coronavirus captivity is the perfect moment to get comfort baking with a beautiful cookbook. Our correspondent Julie Chang Murphy has 12 of the very best baking cookbooks for stress relief. Grab your whisk and let’s go!
Much of the world is confined to home right now. Among the many challenges? Boredom and loneliness. A shrinking of the spirit and a sense of isolation. Perhaps even some fatigue from excessive time housemates and family members. What can be done? Two words, dear reader: live streaming. Our correspondent Abbie Martin Greenbaum has a curated a list of some of the best free live-streaming broadcasts for kids, music, concerts, museums, exercise, cooking, classes and self-improvement of all kinds. Did we mention that they’re all free?
Are you washing your hands often and for a sufficient length of time? Yep, us too. Are your hands starting to become dry and scaly and painfully parched? Yep, ours too. Our ace correspondent Jillian Tangen has the key to comfort: these are the luxury lotions we need to counteract the drying effect of frequent hand washing in this age of COVID-19.
Given everything that’s going on in the world right now, you’d be excused for thinking that you’re living through a horror movie. And yet, some people actually want to binge-watch actual horror movies. Why? We don’t know. But there are plenty of them out there. Our resident cineaste Abbie Martin Greenbaum has curated a list of the best horror movies about apocalypse, disaster, global pandemics and viruses. They’re eerily relevant, and sometimes even prescient. Making them good films to binge-watch during this coronavirus era – if you’re into that kind of thing, dear reader.
Sparklers is a monthly series that highlights those spreading light in the world. We’re celebrating good deeds and those who choose to shine in March 2020. This month we are recognizing the countless health heroes, both individuals and organizations, and the philanthropists helping to combat the global COVID-19 coronavirus pandemic. And sharing information on how to help the coronavirus relief effort.
