I love reading the news, but sometimes it can be a bit much. There are some days when the headlines make it sound like the end of the world is imminent. Maybe it is, but I’m an optimistic person, and it bothers me that often the price of staying informed is feeling anxious or depressed.
So one day I started an exercise: whenever I was feeling glum about the state of the world, I would write my own news. Sometimes the articles I produced were inspired by real events and sometimes they weren’t, but they were always silly, written with the express goal of eliciting laughter.
I recently starting publishing these articles online on a new website I created - The New York Prophet.
