

When smoky skies make you blue
When the sky spit a wee bit of rain last Saturday night, I raised my hands to the heavens and did a happy dance. Like Northern Californians last year when that drought ended with a wildly wet season. Or the Chicago Cubs, who after 108 years, won the World Series, thus ending “the most storied drought in American sporting folklore.” We know our bodies don’t like smoke. The mixture of gases and small particles cause inflammation, wreaking havoc for those with chronic conditions