June is Great Outdoors month, time for "a breath of fresh air". Who hasn't used this phrase in response to a welcome change? Yet we don't get nearly enough of those breaths of fresh air. The Oxford Dictionary, in an illustrative definition of the idiom, notes: "50 per cent of workers never leave the office for a breath of fresh.
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Science writer Florence Williams experienced what felt like a brain injury when her husband left her after more than 25 years. Her new book is Heartbreak: A Personal and Scientific Journey.