I Spent Nearly Two Weeks Recovering From Surgery and My Husband Never Visited Once—Then I Came Home and Froze at the Front Door

Take a pottery class.

Replace the horrible mattress.

Learn to make pasta.

Call friends instead of saying we should.

Take a weekend with no home project.

At the bottom:

Not all of these need to happen. We just need to decide instead of postponing by reflex.

That I liked.

“Stop saying one day” could become another dangerous cliché.