Rolling with the disruption

Should I blame the puppy for disrupting the routine around here? Red has been getting up before me, I have been journaling less regularly, and I haven’t published a book since September — when we got the puppy.

Let’s say I have not made the proper adjustments to the routine in order to maintain the publishing business. Changes in the family should not make a radical difference; after all, Leo Tolstoy wrote War and Peace while he and his wife were raising the first three of their 13 childr...