Roseau Times-Region - Serving Roseau County for over 100 Years - The Official Roseau County Newspaper

A friend once told me "Julie, you worry too much". I thought, "it's getting really hard to just sit in my garden, sipping lemonade, having no cares in the world". I had one goal in high school, getting out! I thought, "when I finally graduate the curse will be over and I can be free. I can be myself, and not always have a bad grade looming over my head." I hated report cards. Worry was a big part of my life then...setting me up to worry even more as an adult.

Little did I know, that how I dealt with all the challenges of growing up, would form my responses as I got older. Taking shortcuts i...