Katie, isn’t it funny how that works? You have so much time on your hands you just can’t motivate yourself to use it for anything serious or important–although I think napping and sewing are pretty important, since they happen to be your way of recharging. We all need that more often than we get it.

So, Little Willow, do you have a secret? Are you a napper? Do you eat lots of protein? What’s the key?

I’m not much of a napper (I always wake up groggy and irritable), but I am planning to go for more walks this week. Even if I don’t really have time. Because I love going for walks (if it’s a nice day, and I have a good book to listen to, anyway). I’ll see what I can do and report back…

I’m trying to adopt a new philosophy, that if something comes easily it means it’s right for me, and that life is better if you don’t struggle at all, but simply go with the flow.

It’s a work in progress, trust me.

Someday, Robin, I’ll write about my Anna. She’s a character. She’s also, I suspect, a genius, but I’ve never had her tested (beyond the school gifted tests, which she’s always aced), ’cause I don’t want that designation hanging over her head. Much better she learn hard work=something that matters. That’s where the skating came in for her. She’s not athletically gifted, but willing to work to skate. Must be my farm ancestry talking (or, as my husband would say, lousy Protestant work ethic…), but I think hard work means something.

Robin – I love what you’re describing, but I think they might get a little touchy with me at work if I put my head down on the circ desk and napped instead of checking out people’s books and stuff. Even if I told them Robin said I could. Alas.