Dee, creativity does not take patience, it just flows. Making beautiful things does not take patience, I absolutely love doing it. What takes the limits of my patience are the post-holiday chores I have to finish every January: my business taxes, cleaning my house, and and organizing/attending to what feels like three solid city blocks of paperwork and paper... thingies. I have no idea where it all comes from, but for years I've suspected that it spontaneously generates at night and then autonomously reproduces until it swallows my house. Honest.

Saundra, thanks for your caring. I lose about 5 days every month, usually several days at a time. The only absolute cure is decapitation, and that's a little radical even for me.