A Much-Needed Mental Health Break

Morning at Lighthouse Beach in Chatham © Bruce Coulter Photography

It was time for a break.

After searching for a new place to live — a process that took nearly ten weeks — I was fried emotionally. Until you’ve been through it, and I’m guessing most readers have, it can be a grueling process. Finding a place I could afford and then hoping to be approved by the landlord or management agency will do a job on you mentally. At least it did on my daughter and me. We had highs…