I've been thinking about the difference between needs and wants--as if anyone couldn't think about it with the season of commercialism upon us. Like is it a want or a need to make chocolate toffee crack(er)s for the teachers in my life? Are new socks a want or a need? What about time? Is it a want or a need to make the time to go to the gym? To write? To not write? To do laundry? To read a book? Lately, everything seems like a need.