When I travelled to Syria for the first time over ten years ago, I was sure that I would return soon and often. Now, some of the people I met and the places I admired don’t exist anymore. And so I choose to remember Syria just how I found it: complicated yet beautiful, warm and hospitable.

Writing something remotely useful about procrastination should come easy to me – I practice it daily. Three hours after I sat down to do so the page is still blank. However, I now have confirmation from several sources that procrastinators are anything but lazy as they are busy doing many things while avoiding others.