Hanging In There

How do you hang in there? That's a twenty dollar question, on this, a ten cent type of day. I've been pondering it pretty hardcore; intently for a week or so since someone I care about asked it, as a background question for as long as I've been paying attention to things.

When I was doing more journalism than I do right now, I got to interview a lot of people. And when you talk to a lot of people, you get to hear all about the horrible things that have happened to them in the course of their...