What "being in the driver's seat" looks like now

For decades, chaos kept me constantly dodging, weaving, and changing my speed. Can I learn to trust cruise control?

What I remember best about March 2020 - besides the stacks and stacks of pancakes I made for my kids - was the strange sense of focused calm that settled over me.

While schools and businesses closed, every day more dominoes falling, my brain went straight into the mode it was most familiar with: playing defense. It may sound strange to say that I found …