Next rest stop

What a difference a week makes. From sun on leaves to snow-flattened lilacs and bent and broken trees. And before another week is out we will have gone through both Halloween and the end of an endless election. Even the time will change (for those who are looking for change) one hour back. The snow will probably go, and maybe come back, too. And the markets might go way down one day, and way up the next. Frankly, I could use a little Dramamine.

When I used to get carsick as a kid, my Mom told me not to look out the side window or down at the road speeding by, but to focus instead on the horizon, to rest my eyes on the long view. Good advice for the nervous tummy. And good advice for the nervous voter, the nervous investor, and the just plain nervous. Just keep it together for the next few miles. Surely there'll be a rest stop soon.