This Business of the Quickening (Or Quitting) (Part 2)

This is not any other week. Yesterday, I wrote of the quickening moment, the moment of starting a new job. I wrote about being a quitter, about walking out on a career that, by all measures, has treated me well (ceteris paribus). And though some of you have asked “What’s your new job?” or “Are you having a premature mid-life crisis?” let’s not put the trailer before the truck.

A word on my life before this quickening week.

For 12 years, I have been a member of a large law firm (large in Arkan...