I love the tradition many people have of choosing a word to hang their new year on. I’m sure I’ve done that in the past, but I forget what I said. Which goes to the practicality of my choosing a theme, but not pasting it on the wall, or on something I see every day.

There are two things that loom large for me in 2020, two verbs that have made themselves significant in the past few months: Sleep and create.

Our Sylvie has no problem getting to bed

My relationship status with sleep: it’s...