It’s been an insane November for me. Between my two jobs, my revisions, a short story, the holidays, visiting relatives, and a thousand little tasks that only I can do, I’ve hardly had time to take a breath.

At my full-time day job, as a secretary, a crisis at work prompted the telephone to ring off the hook for a week and only now am I beginning to catch up on all the various little tasks that I had to put aside to field those calls. As we head into the holiday season, the events that I have...