Interesting Websites to Visit When You Want to Escape Negative News

Front page of The Marginalian, a blog by Maria Popova, highlighting the most recent post about insomnia.

When I’m feeling overwhelmed from negative news stories, I know I need to take a break.

Birding and hiking helps me find an escape, but weather like our recent bitter cold and rain showers mean I can’t always get outside.

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On This Day: February 26

Two white umbrella-shaped blooms hang upside down from slender green stems surrounded by variegated green rosette leaves on the dark brown mulched ground. Several mounds of melting white snow in the background.

Whoa, it’s been a year already?

I didn’t realize this week marks one year since I first published a post highlighting previous posts published each year on a specific day.

It was fun to walk down memory lane and check out the different types of posts I published on February 26 over the past 16 years.

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