As JFK once said, we don’t write listicles because they’re easy; we write them because we came up against a self-imposed deadline with nothing substantial on our mind.

Because July’s theme is brain soup. Too many life events in my life! A move, another stint of unemployment before returning to school, a wedding! Champagne problems, I know. I think I like this little life.

And yet, it’s giving me old woman knees. I need long periods to sit. I spend too much time in grocery stores to turn my brain ...