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Intro Para. The adrenal glands sit on our Kidneys and produce cortisol in response to stress and they play an important protective role against stressors and surviving ‘fight or flight’ situations such as running away from a tiger or in modern society getting from one job, meeting, social occasion, appointment and repeat.


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It does this by increasing blood volume and pressure, reducing inflammation, suppressing immune activation and by ensuring we have an abundant energy supply to cope during this period of stress.

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Today’s article was supposed to be about New Zealand. For almost two months, the front page of my blog signaled to the wandering reader that this was “Carried Away Time”: Carrie was losing herself on the road, again, like every year before, during the summer season.

Today is Wednesday. Today is the day I was supposed to get back to normal. Blogging twice a week, catching up with other people’s writing, getting back to work. You know: whatever happens to you, however far you travel, no matter how many fantastic places and people you live, or however long your absence may be — when you’re back home, when you wake up jet-lagged the following morning, your spirit and your body proudly demonstrate their admirable and despicable ability to just go back to normal, to habits, to patterns.

Today is Wednesday. Today is the day I was supposed to get back to normal. Blogging twice a week, catching up with other people’s writing, getting back to work. You know: whatever happens to you, however far you travel, no matter how many fantastic places and people you live, or however long your absence may be — when you’re back home, when you wake up jet-lagged the following morning, your spirit and your body proudly demonstrate their admirable and despicable ability to just go back to normal, to habits, to patterns.