A New Date Is Set
By-when? — It’s the question that lingers at the edges of my mind. If I’m to do a task, by-when is the rudder that steers my sails. Wind is needed, certainly. But I can’t control the wind—I can only harness it when it comes, and wait patiently when it doesn’t. I’ve had to revise my by-whens more than I’d like to count—like when I told myself I’d have a solid book proposal and a literary agent within six…