'Tis the season to get those “our-kids-are-taking-a-break-from-Harvard-to-serve-in-the-Peace-Corps” Christmas letters.

I’ll take sticks and stones to break my bones any day because it’s words that hurt me. Sadly, it’s not someone else shouting them at me. It’s my own inner voice whispering them in my ear.

All I could hear was Miracle Max’s voice from Princess Bride. Was the vine “mostly dead or all dead?”

Choosing the "AND" Life in an Easy-Button, Less-Filling World