Lemon Pie: Lessons from Unlikely Places to Nourish You in Troubled Times

We are living in troubled times. Lest we forget, we are bombarded daily with updates and reminders of unemployment, economic worries, threats of terrorism, and war by mass media, political rhetoric, and marketing wizards who are serving their own agendas. As a citizen, mother, and psychologist who has spent hours counseling individuals and couples, I am as concerned as you are.

This is not the way humans were meant to live. Evidence abounds in nature, in positive interactions with others, a...