PICK ONE
"There's always an alien battle-cruiser, or a Corillian death ray, or an intergalactic plague that's about to wipe out life on this miserable planet. The only way that these people get on with their happy lives is they DO NOT know about it."
- Agent K, Men In Black (1997)
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Do you ever have days when it looks like the world is going to hell, humanity is devolving, and Armageddon is just around the bend?

And if all that isn't enough to start researching "Living Off The Grid", someone who owes you money doesn't pay you when they said they would? Arrrgh!!!
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The easiest solution to the growing emotional distress is just to disconnect your internet or TV. Out of sight, out of mind.

But then all the storms of Life - and the next alien battlecruiser - could totally take you by surprise.

Besides, you couldn't binge the next escape on Netflix or Amazon Prime. Dang.

Another option is to learn how to overcome them both. Ugh.
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When it comes to the Storms of Life,...

BITE ME

“The struggle for existence is a struggle ‘for’ something; it is purposeful and only in so being is it meaningful and able to bring meaning into life.” - Viktor Frankl 

Nothing says “good morning” quite like discovering that the steering wheel, headrests and contents of my truck’s cab are now interconnected by hundred of crisscrossed spiderwebs, glistening in the sunlight like a time-lapse aerial shot of flight traffic over a major airport. Even though I was raised by a mom (until I was grown, at 8), who raised Black Widow spiders in jars in the bathroom of our cinder block house, something about sitting in the midst of fresh webbing is a tad creepy. But then I remembered what I learned from Viktor Frankl…and Peter Parker. Let’s start with Frankl.

When U.S. forces freed Viktor Frankl, this Austrian doctor who was thrown into 4 successive Nazi concentration camps over a 6-year span for the crime of being Jewish when...