For any of you suffering from mental/emotional whiplash due to the US election, I’m right there with you. I don’t know what happened, either. But I do know what to do about it:

Read.

“But how can I read?” I hear some of you cry.  “The world is on fire—in some places, literally. I can’t bury my head in a book. And I don’t even have the attention span to read books anymore!”

I know. I thought the same about myself. But then I did something crazy:

I exited social media (in some cases, deactivated a...