Don’t Stress About Stress
By Larry Leech Here we are … again in October. With fun times ahead. A kids’ holiday now celebrated by adults as well. Falling back in November. Thanksgiving. Christmas. New Year’s. Lots of laughs. Lots of food. And hopefully lots of memories that will last a lifetime. But let’s not forget the stress that comes with some of the aforementioned. For some reason or another, writers almost always seem to carry a certain level of stress. Maybe because some of us put a lot of pressure on ourselves to deliver top-notch material. Maybe because we’ve waited until the last minute to make deadline. Or maybe because we don’t know how to live without stress. No matter the reason, the extra stress could suffocate one’s creativity. Unless, of course, you have the rare gift of excelling under pressure. Decades ago when I was a younger man, I never worried much about stress. Being an older man now, I do worry about stress. A lot. Ironic that I stress about stress. To ...
