Songs in the Key of Life
The movie High Anxiety was a Mel Brooks classic. Not as classic as History of the World or Young Frankenstein or certainly not as epic as Blazing Saddles, but it was great. The feeling of High Anxiety sucks. It really sucks. It’s that pit in your stomach caused by stress. These days there are about a million legitimate reasons to be anxious. But usually for me, its the small stuff, you know the stuff that Richard Carlson told me not to sweat. Big life-changing events, piece of cake. Small stuff, PANIC ATTACK. The good news is once that small stuff moves from future tense to present tense, the pit somehow disappears. Pretty much immediately. Unfortunately I have gotten used to feeling that pit in my stomach, but I definitely sweat it. The source of the current pit is the upcoming back-to-school picnic. This is not just any back-to-school picnic. This is the picnic at the school where my wife is a teacher and my three kids attend. And the featured attraction of Monday’s picnic is... ...M...