Busy busy.....

Since starting this blog, I have a lot more to do! The writing here is the least of it, it's the projects that this writing has stimulated that have me neglecting TV, novels, and cover to cover reading of The New Yorker.

Today and tomorrow the first week's Writes will be coming in from the six people in the new online PW course. Reading those and thinking about them and formulating a group response to post on Monday will be stimulating and fun, and it will require the time and concentration of serious imaginative work.

Also this morning, I am scheduled to create a first draft of a catalogue description for a course a colleague and I are developing and hope to teach together. Maybe more on that later. It's been a long time since I felt the need to make a work schedule to get everything done. Daunting and exhilarating.

One new thought for The Home Stretch: The couple may have thought they were fixed for life, only to be hit hard by the economic crisis. Maybe they lost all their investments and retirement, and have nothing left except their house and their social security. Maybe that's the shock that triggers their consideration of making a completely fresh start, striking out in a new direction. Which could include going it alone, ending the relationship.