Sometimes when I’m really stressed and overwhelmed, it’s tempting to fantasize about letting it all go—moving my family to some gorgeous tropical island and just tending a garden. As if gardener me would be a different me. But the truth is, tropical island or not, I am going to find a way to project manage my life into a whirlwind. I am going to be the most productive, maximizing, stressed-out gardener in the history of gardeners. You can bring an overachiever to the island, but you can’t make her chill.

