Sarah has her Year of Jubilee. I will have my 9 months of Make It So. While I am a sucker for all things The West Wing, Jean-Luc Picard was speaking to me, and he wasn’t saying, “Earl Grey, hot.”

I have been stuck in the same place for a couple of years now. The exact scenario I feared when I went back to work in 2008 is where I am. I put it all in a very long email (and kept a copy) because I knew it was something I had to write rather than say. (Oh hai, not-a-writer. Heh. Thank goodness for really smart friends.) It’s not something I will talk about in great detail, but in a nutshell, I’ve been doing the same sort of job since 1988 and that’s long enough. I’m over being a crappy employee, a lousy wife, and a tired, impatient mom. I can’t do it all. I don’t want to do it all. I want to do less and do those things that are left really, really well.

I’ve thought about it long enough, and while I don’t have a definitive plan, it’s time to make it so.