“My favorite escapes from depression are meds and writing,” says Diana Spechler in a New York Times opinion piece. “But I can’t do both at once.” Friends have been forwarding to me her columns in the “Going Off” series, which chronicles her attempt to wean off the medications she takes for depression, anxiety, and insomnia....

Hello, Readers! You may have noticed there are some changes to my website. Two years ago, I created a free wordpress.com blog, thereseborchardblog.com, because I couldn’t figure out how to build a website from the domain name thereseborchard.com that I had purchased. Free wordpress sites are great but they have many limitations, both in data...