“How to be Optimistic when Everything Seems So Hopeless”

In junior high, my friends and I made a “magazine” with a bunch of our cartoons stapled into booklet form in the style of our beloved National Lampoon. It was something I didn’t continue in high school, mostly because I got serious about writing and getting my work published in actual magazines. But late in my senior year of high school, I made one more of those magazines. It was called, “How…