WHAT TO DO WITH A WEEK

What should one do with an extra week off at the tail-end of the holidays? Write a mile-long to-do list, of course. If you’re me, which I’m guessing you are glad you are not, after hearing that. To be clear, my to-do list has things like “Watch Downton Abbey’s Christmas episode” on it, as well as “iron clothes” so it’s both things I want to do and things I need to do. I’ve already crossed off 7 things and started two others. We denuded the trees of decorations yesterday and Anders chopped all the limbs off. Both trees were dry...