Any Excuse Will Do – or, Procrastination

Pink gilia in Sequoia National Park in June

Come to think of it, Procrastination is not a bad title for a pseudo Jane Austen novel, is it? Starting a fashion for one word titles with her own Persuasion, Jane Austen also wrote to her niece Anna, approving of the one-word title of her work in progress, Enthusiasm. She wrote, “Enthusiasm is such an excellent title, nothing could surpass it!” So perhaps she might also have approved of Procrastination as a title. Imagine her writing a novel about tw...