a little coffee

Us three SPRY ladies met last night and hatched plans for our new issue, to hit the intertubes by April! Our upcoming theme is addiction. Oooooh… Of course it’s not going to be about just drugs and booze and food. What constitutes addiction? You hear all the time, “I’m addicted to ‘Survivor’.” “I’m addicted to text messaging.” “I’m addicted to chocolate.” Are these true addictions? How to differentiate between addiction and just plain ol’ feel goods? You watch Survivor while eating a bar of Hershey’s Special Dark while texting your best-friend who is camped out on her couch doing the same thing because you both enjoy it. It makes you feel good…but do you need it in the way a crack addict needs their pipe ?

Maybe not quite like that, but our bodies still desire. What about sex? What about love? Maybe us squishy robots have addictive personalities because we’re programed to become addicted to certain things. Our chemicals like what happens to them when we feel “love,” the way it makes us all warm and tingly inside. Kissing someone you care about actually reduces stress levels. And we crave chocolate (sugar) because even just the taste makes us feel just a little better. Really.

And so on and on and on…

Check out SPRY in April for a more indepth exploration of these topics- and MORE!