After 20 years of continuous service, the 26” color TV in our bedroom became toast about a month ago. There was no reviving it.  Lauren and I had gotten into a familiar routine as I’m sure millions of other couples have—flipping on the TV while getting ready for bed, watching the assortment of late night hosts and finally getting sleepy enough to turn it off before retiring for the night.  For decades, what I just described was America’s ritual when Johnny Carson hosted The Tonight Show on NBC.  When the TV first broke, our intention was to buy...

Dr. Robert Anthony once wrote, “The last fault people try to correct is procrastination.”  I couldn’t agree more.  We procrastinators like to think of ourselves as “deadline driven.” There is an interesting phenomenon that I have observed regarding procrastination and its relationship to anxiety that I’d like to share. One time, in college (see pic above), I remember putting off a particularly ominous term paper.  The professor told us it had to be 15 pages long.  The required length was, in itself, daunting.  I remember thinking, How am...