Ive always been the kind of person who works best under a deadline. Give me a due date and consider it done! I get three times as many things completed before a vacation or traveling out of town than any other regular day. Deadlines and due dates are good for me. They motivate me. They keep me going.

Lately, among the pandemic, I find that Im oscillating in the exact opposite space of that pre-vacation scramble. It seems that time has no significance.

Every morning I wake up and there are so...