The Little Paper

This March has 17 school-free days out of 31 so, depending on your travel plans, the weather, your religious and cultural affiliations, the inlaws and your level of organizational aplomb, the next four weeks ought to be somewhere between a relaxing opportunity to connect with your family and a rollercoaster ride of marathon-like duration and intensity. I’ll likely find myself on the white knuckle thrill ride side, starting offstrong with seven a.m. Parks and Rec registrations, making an overconfidentascent into March Break, getting a little shaky mid-monthwhile transforming camp crafts into marginally appropriate St Patrick’s Day decorations, frantically recycling it all into a kind of avant garde Easter egg decoupage around midnight on Good Friday and finally coming to a shuddering halt on the couch with a bag of purloined jelly beans and a large martini on the 31st.