People, people, people. I want you to put on your glasses and get out a pen and notebook, because I’m about to give you a Great Truth that some of you may already have figured out. Here it is.

There’s no point in worrying about anything, because the things you worry about never happen. It’s the things you never expected that will wallop you and knock you across the room.

My mom was a nonstop worrier. To her, the glass was always half empty. One time, I told her on the phone proudly that I’d just been promoted at work. Five minutes later, she asked if I thought I might be laid off.

I decided to adopt foster siblings and keep them together, because my mom was an orphan who’d been separated from her sisters and it scarred her life. When I told her I was adopting two kids, she was opposed t

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