Let’s check in: I am writing this at 6:49 a.m. on November 4, 2020. It’s the day after the U.S. Presidential election. At the moment, the election is still undecided. And in America, more than 9.49 million people have the Coronavirus and 236,000 people have died from the virus. German, France, and the United Kingdom have all announced a second round of lockdown measures as the virus is spreading throughout Europe.

What to do when there is great uncertainty in your life? How do you deal with those sorts of challenges? As a kid growing up in an alcoholic/dysfunctional family, I had two ways of dealing with uncertainty:

• I escaped into a fantasy world by writing.

• I became an overachiever and hyper-responsible.