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There is a word I plan to embrace this year: pronoia. It is the mental state characterized by the belief that ultimately everything happening to you is for your benefit.

Somewhere along the way, I ran across a variation of this. It made me smile and made me think. “The fact that there’s a highway to hell but only a stairway to heaven says a lot about the anticipated numbers.“

If you’re picturing Clapton, Beck, or Van Halen, think again. I’m not talking about guitar legends—I’m talking about the gods. And these particular deities recently answered a long-standing prayer of mine. Being married to a musician means there have always been guitar cases, foot pedals, and amps scattered throughout the house. Often, they were just stacked in a corner, one on top of the other. There were cases leaning against the dresser. Occasionally, one was

Read the vowels in “Celine Dion” out loud. Yes, sometimes, I enjoy silly stuff.

I skipped all the way home from school that day. Report cards had come out, and I was SO PROUD. We were overseas, so the school system did not have the traditional grades of A, B, C, etc. Instead, we had O for outstanding, S for satisfactory, and N for needs improvement. My entire report card was so full of O’s it was practically polka-dotted! I could tell my mother was pleased, but she didn’t say