Dealing With Wanderlust by Looking Backward

Last autumn, my wife and I traveled to England and France for our 25th wedding anniversary, a trip we almost didn’t take. There were a hundred reasons not to go, and we’d considered delaying our second honeymoon until this spring, but we went ahead anyway. Now, as a pandemic makes such travel impossible, we’re glad we took the plunge when we did.

All of this came to mind a few weeks ago as I was clearing our household study so I could join millions of other Americans in working from home. That’s when I came across a thick…