Word: frets
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When my dad used to pile us into our Plymouth station wagon, he always reminded us to enjoy the drive and not fret about when we'd get to Yellowstone. Back then it was easier to enjoy the drive, though. The reels on the gas pumps turned almost as slowly as the date wheel on my father's Timex. There were so few other drivers on the highway that my brother and I could wave to all of them. As for oil, we assumed it all came from Texas, gushing up black into a clear blue sky while...
...country stalwart nixed his May and June dates to cope with carpal-tunnel syndrome in his left hand. It seems playing nearly nightly for six decades finally gave the tireless tourer reason to fret...
Instead of looking forward to a school camp, for example, they fret about what might go wrong, like being served food they don't like or having to shower in front of others. While these scenarios might cross the minds of most kids, anxious ones would rather skip the camp than risk embarrassment. Some extremely anxious children worry incessantly about things beyond their control, such as earthquakes, nuclear war and sars, inflating in their minds the danger to themselves and their families. Worse, sufferers feel compelled to conceal their fears from everyone and often grow into depressed teens. "Anxious children...
...takes the long view. It prefers light to heat, and doesn?t fret if the worthy subject is not in EW or on ?ET.? In its cosmology, novelists and sculptors, opera divas and pop singers past puberty are stars worth traveling to, and doing features on, in the fat middle of the show. (?CBS SM? must account for 100% of network coverage of ballet.) Crucially, it believes that what happened 50 or 100 - or, in the show?s case, 25 - years ago is as important, and may touch us as deeply, as the news of the past week...
...what's to fret about if you're only edging 60? Well, there are a few impediments. For all the cheerleading of sex-advice books and the fervor of magazines like Modern Maturity, the AARP's house organ (GREAT SEX: WHAT'S AGE GOT TO DO WITH IT? blared a cover a few years ago that featured a voluptuous Susan Sarandon), age does bring sexual changes for both genders. My father, who flirted outrageously even after he turned 90, liked to tell the story of the old guy who wants his doctor to "lower" his sex urge. At your...