Dear Editor,

“Summer’s end, around the bend is flying . . . ” sang John Prine. Yes, folks, there it goes, taking all of us along for the ride. We have wanna-dos and gotta-dos. Those whose wanna and gotta lists coincide are lucky, indeed. Some of the items on the wanna and gotta lists end up on the oughtta-do list, to be done later, before the snow covers them up. That’s when oughtta-dos become shoulda-dones.

Now, I have such a heap of gotta-dos staring me in the face, that I don’t have time to attend to the wanna-dos. First, I must make a list of various ways to procrastinate. I should be good at that, with my vast wealth of experience in that field.  

I’ll get back to you, when the work’s all done this fall.

Robert Wills, Thorne and Shawville