Found on the sidewalk on the last day of August 2012: a fortune cookie slip bear...

Found on the sidewalk on the last day of August 2012: a fortune cookie slip bearing the words “Get ready to do something daring.”
“Okay,” I said out loud.
I was happy for the phrasing, because to me the words “get ready” implied that I did not have to be daring just quite yet.
I am, by nature, extremely cautious.
But I have found that writing a book cannot be a cautious undertaking.
Instead, it must be an act of desperation and derring-do.
I took the fortune as a reminder that I am being to...