How to Know When It’s Time to Refill the Well

I spent last weekend away from my computer. I didn’t respond to the emails stacking up in my in-box. I didn’t check Facebook and like, like, like post after post. I didn’t blog or tweet or scroll.

Instead, I laid down a drop cloth on the back lawn and spray painted a bedside table white. And then I spray painted an old-fashioned metal milk jug and a crock that I’ve thought aboutdonating to the Goodwill. I decided to keep it; I like it white.

Whilethose dried in the May breeze, I wiped the po...