I have spent a lot of time since retiring from teaching trying to find peace in this chaotic world, but many times, anxiety and fear crowd into my otherwise knowledge-seeking mind. Anxiety is a free-floating sense of dread, a vague and distant nagging that something is going to happen. It results in feelings of gloom and doom and steals your sleep, your energy, and twists your body into a pretzel shape. On the other hand, fear is an awareness of…..
