Memorial Day Weekend News Fast

Long weekends are great. It's just enough time to do chores *and* kick back. Long weekends also encourage news fasts, maybe because schedules tend to be more fluid. I first encountered the term "news fast" from Dr. Andrew Weil's website after 9/11. He calls a constant barrage of news "mental junk food." That really made an impression on me, since I can tend toward anxiety. Listening or reading about a litany of problems (which is what the news is, of course) makes me edgy and down for no perceptible reason. A forced break from the news can re-introduce calmness into the psyche.