Medically speaking, many people struggle with a condition called Seasonal Affect Disorder. While SAD is a serious medical condition, I fight cabin fever with a self-prescribed grain of salt and overdose of humor. Putting a kilowatt bulb in the table lamp also helps. Of course, it's not easy to keep a sunny disposition in the dead of winter. For many people, short days and long winter nights is a maddening equation.
People even wait by the phone so they can hang up on telemarketers.
Frankly, I'm surprised Punxsutawney Phil didn't become a steak and cheese sandwich after seeing his shadow this year. After all, six more weeks of winter is food for thought not easily swallowed in February. Basically it turns our thoughts from homicidal tendencies to sweet-nothings. Historians tell us this holiday is in celebration of the Roman martyr priest Saint Valentine. This patron saint of lovers is the reason why we send greeting cards containing words such as doth, twane and thou.