Well, we’re STILL awaiting spring here in the Northeast, still being teased by the fact that it’s April and yet ridiculously colder than it has any right to be.

Today, driving to the library, I saw little ICE crystals bouncing out of the sky onto my windshield. I wanted to close my eyes so I wouldn’t have to see such a miscarriage of meteorological justice, but then I would have probably driven off the road.

And now that I have gotten to the library, where it is warm enough that a person can drink iced tea without shivering, I have perceived yet ANOTHER problem. There is a little bit of a bad vibe here today, which I now realize is happening because nearly all the people here have TAX FORMS in front of them. Some are even whispering furiously with official accounting types and shuffling through briefcases filled with receipts and such. What can be worse than having ice crystals AND tax form pressure all in one day?

Life is so unfair sometimes.

But here is an offering, in case you also are shaking your fist at some sky somewhere, or else scowling at tax forms: a video that has a chance of making you smile. As my friend Beth Levine said when she sent it to me, “I already knew that musical theater could cure the world of all its troubles!”

Go–watch and smile.