Today was quite a day, and every time I turned around, something else was winding me up. I give up.

I finally did what I had not done in a very long time. I chucked my to-do list in the garbage, found an Anne Tyler book (nobody writes great characters quite like Anne Tyler), turned off my phone and computer, and read a solid hour.

I haven’t done that in ages.

I truly had forgotten what good therapy great fiction is.