If you get caught in the anxiety of overwhelming thoughts more often than you like, you are not alone. In fact, you and 40 million other Americans share this problem. And it IS a problem. These are some of the symptoms: - You go through life feeling more and more stretched. - You wonder how you’ll get everything done. - You feel disconnected from the purpose you feel you should be living. - You constantly relive old hurts. - You suffer from insomnia. - You spend far more time

I was recently the giddy recipient of a fun little book of haikus. It came in this fabulous bag, which is gift-worthy in itself. But who knew the hip, young company that sells eyeglasses would also have created the delightful collection of haikus that brought such warmth to me on a cold winter morning? (Many thanks to my friend, Dr. Dave Johnson, for knowing how much I’d love the book AND the bag!) The first thing I read was the introduction to the book, which says, in part:

Did you ever feel something wonderful come into your life, as though it simply fell out of the sky into your lap? No? Are you a bit like Chicken Little, or did you just become too cynical to believe that goodness, not doom, can fall from the sky? This is a judgement-free zone, here, so either answer is acceptable. Life is challenging. Hard. Exasperating. Unfair. Painful. And as humans, we are all facing some version of the struggles our childhood fairy tales told us about. Ch