Addiction Story #3, Lily of the Valley: I Thought I Could Power Through Work without a Snack

That pregnant pause, full and round — that moment, so familiar, wading in fear and anxiety, first self-taught 39 years ago as a college junior. That impulsive second when I decide I have to soften the real, hard edges of work with a snack before I can take it on, see it through. Here is #3, Lily of the Valley, in my flower-titled sugar addiction series.

I don’t see a snack on the desk of Mary Richards, do you? (“The Mary Tyler Moore Show” originally aired from September 1970 to March 1977. I remember those Saturday nights!)