Longing for Belonging

Forget fitting in...it's frustratingly fickle and fundamentally fruitless.

I hate to tell you, friends, but the holidays aren’t yet over, and the earworms have made a resurgence. It’s as though they heard me congratulating myself on making it through that multi-round slugfest I had with Santa Claus is Comin’ to Town and decided I needed to be knocked down a peg or two.

The most recent earworm onslaught happened just a couple d…