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What High Achievers Can Do With That Extra Hour They Gain When We Fall Back in November

by Debbie L. Miller

Debbie Lynn Miller
Published in
1 min readSep 26, 2023

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Mount a presidential campaign and promise “Quinoa and Cold Brew Coffee for All.”

Read War and Peace.

Tour the world with a neo-grunge garage band, rise to rock star status, infight, break up, reunite, then launch the first in a series of farewell tours.

Begin and end a romantic relationship, and create a podcast and write a best-selling tell-all about how the experience has informed your life’s mission.

Scale Mt. Everest. In winter. While fighting a killer toothache.

Time-travel to the Old West and beat Wyatt Earp at stud poker. Pop back to the present, enter, compete in, and win the World Series of Poker.

Master three obscure languages — Klingon, Ayapaneco, and Sentinelese — and write a dissertation in one of them.

Travel to the Southern Highlands of Mars and found a colony for ex-pats. Survive a coup d’etat, install a puppet leader, foment a civil war, expel the opposition, and return to Earth to start a daytime talk show.

Solve global warming.

Pay off your student loans.

Crack the housing market and be the first in your peer group to buy a house.

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Debbie Lynn Miller
The Haven

Published in Belladonna Comedy, Frazzled, The Haven, The StopGap, Greener Pastures, & The Syndrome Magazine. Brooklyn comedy/humor/satire writer & journalist.