That way, if they decide to chase you, you have their shoes and a mile's head start on them.
Writing is like that.
Yes that thudding noise you're hearing is Karla banging her head against the keyboard because the thought just managed to get a mile's lead on me in my shoes and now I'm barefoot and stuck for a new idea. Such was life this week. For example, report cards have been coming out over the past two weeks so I have parent-teacher conferences along with the medical appointments, laundry, cooking of dinner and other such things. It doesn't seem like a lot, but all of a sudden I realize that I am once again standing there, barefoot, and watching my life disappear over the curve of the horizon. I'm known to say that I have it easy.