The Drake

The Sabbatical Report

I TOOK SOME time off one spring to fish. Weeks earlier, as I tied flies and rigged my truck for camping, my wife began referring to the coming downtime as my “sabbatical.” That felt generous; a characterization more befitting of priests and tenured professors, not a bored, half-assed attorney. Still, I liked the sound of it.

I certainly wasn’t convinced that replacing work with a stint as a

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