These past few days, I feel all good about myself if I manage to write 1,000 coherent words. Most days, on most topics, I can do much more. On this Law paper and this Ethics paper, I'm happy with the 1,000 words.

And then I read Ayelet Waldman, whose new blog I adore, who has had four children while writing nine novels and buying a house, all in the past ten years.

Perhaps I'm a bit too lenient with myself.