A few days ago I was having an email conversation with a much younger friend who is also a writer and a blogger, and who reads Days in the Life.  Among other things we were talking about keeping a blog fed.  I was saying that I knew I did too much and that my life was Seriously Out of Control* . . . but that I still sat down some evenings to write a blog entry and thought, WHAT?  WHAT?  She wrote back, You get a lot done. It's actually kind of scary from this side. 

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