Cupcakes and Karma
From Chicken Soup for the Soul: Find Your Happiness
By Gloria Hander Lyons

We have to learn to be our own best friends because we fall too easily into the trap of being our own worst enemies.
~Roderick Thorp

For most adults, managing the daily demands of a job, spouse, kids, home and community can be challenging, not to mention stressful. Since I was one of those mom-wife-employee-homemaker types who couldn’t say “no,” I soon developed combat tactics to dispatch my duties with military precision and efficiency.

A two-hundred-page report by morning? No problem! Five thousand cupcakes for the kindergarten class by noon tomorrow? Can do! I formed a battle plan, launched my attack and took no prisoners. Bring it on: the school board, the homeowner’s association, the Cub Scouts. I felt invincible. But where was the joy? (Keep reading)