By Erica and Karen

1. Stay under the covers and plead with your partner to bring you coffee in bed before you face the day.

2. Bake bread. Or, along the same lines, make pizza. In either case the wonderful smell will warm you even before you eat.

3. Clean out your closet. If you have warm clothes you do not plan to use again, give them away.

4. If it’s not icy, go for a long walk. It will feel great once you get going. And it will really feel great when you get back inside.

5. Plan your summer vacation. Or a winter vacation on the other side of the equator.

6. Read some good books. We can recommend:

   • Sanjay Gupta. Keep Sharp. Build A Better Brain At Any Age.

   • Tana French. The Searcher.

   • Lisa See. The Tea Girl of Hummingbird Lane.

   • David McCloskey. Damascus Station.

   • Gail Collins. When Everything Changed.

   • Madeline Miller. Circe.

   • Scott Ellsworth. The Secret Game.

7. Rearrange your furniture. Or maybe repaint or recover one piece.

8. Rearrange your face. Try new makeup. Maybe this will inspire you.

9. Send an upbeat email, with pictures, preferably of you beachside, to everyone you like. Photoshop is fine.

10. Watch a movie that will make you cry.

    • Their Finest.

    • Good Will Hunting.

    • Lion.

    • If Beale Street Could Talk.

    • A Star Is Born.

    • Pan’s Labyrinth.

    Spring is coming!