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Are you having trouble focusing, feeling lonely or hopeless, lacking motivation, withdrawing from people?
These are some of the symptoms of pandemic fatigue, a condition brought on by the stresses and fears of the past year, combined with having too much free time.
The hallmark of pandemic fatigue is a sense of inner weariness, says UCLA Health.
The bad news is that the pandemic will linger for a while, but the good news is that there are ways to counteract the mental and emotional toll and cultivate a new sense of intellectual vigor.
Pepsi Umberger, an assistant teaching professor of kinesiology at Penn State New Kensington, is helping students with that by teaching a course on stress relief.
“Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom” was August Wilson’s first play to hit Broadway. Now it’s his second to become a feature film. The Pittsburgh-born playwright’s namesake August Wilson Center for African American Culture marks the occasion with a virtual panel discussion featuring some of the new film’s distinguished creative team. Ma Rainey Redux Part II virtual panel discussion: 7 p.m. Fri., Dec. 18
The panel on Fri., Dec. 18 – the same day the film premieres on Netflix – includes director and Broadway veteran George C. Wolfe; the film’s screenwriter, the actor and Wilson collaborator Ruben Santiago-Hudson; and Constanza Romero, Wilson’s widow and the film’s executive producer. Moderator Jessica Lanay, the Center’s literary curator, says Wilson’s drama illuminates the little-known roots of American popular culture.