

Don’t Believe Everything You Worry About
Write Your Worries Away A week ago, Mary and I went camping for the first time in our new camper and for the last time this year. Our camper is a simple tent on a trailer, but a significant upgrade for us. Both of us felt anxious about hauling a trailer behind our little Subaru, but it pulled into traffic on I-75 with no problem. Since it weighs only 800 pounds and is not as wide as our car, we can easily see around it and over it. First worry solved. We chose a tiny campgrou


Change Your Mind
It’s Amazing What You’ll See In September, Mary and I took a camping trip to the Upper Peninsula of Michigan. We pitched our tent at a remote campground near Lake Superior. During the week, it rained, a gale-force wind almost blew us out of our tent, and most of the nights, the temperature dipped into the low 40s. We can become so absorbed in the bad news, which seems everywhere, like scary figures lurking in the shadows – fear, worry, and anger — that we do not notice the sm