"Congratulations," a colleague told me yesterday. "For what?" He smiled and pointed at the cloudless blue sky through the window behind him. "For surviving the winter." His statement implied two things: that it was no longer winter, and that I had survived. I do not consider myself a person of weak constitution, but I have …
Tag: to-do list
Turning Your To-Do List Upside Down
It's looming behind me as I speak, mocking me. It's my whiteboard wall, which as I noted on this blog the other day is filled with dozens of bullets of short-term tasks to advance myself as a writer and teacher. It helps my mind to have all of these to-do's written down; I feel a …
The Artist's Road 