Good Ol’ Charlie Brown, in a good ol’ four-paneled Peanuts strip that ran when I was still singing soprano, looks forlornly at a book on a table in the first panel and says “Christmas vacation is almost over…” With the book in hand, he exclaims in the second panel, “I still haven’t written my book report on ‘Gulliver’s Travels.’… I haven’t even started to read it yet!” In the third panel, he ponders aloud, “Why don’t I get started? Why do I put things off?” The fourth panel finds Good Ol’ Charlie Brown in a chair in front of the ...