Frog and Toad!
Wonderful post!
Frog and Toad . . . how terrific!
I love this post! I love Frog and Toad! (I think I read this book when I was little, too.) And I so know how you feel - I've posted a list or 2, and felt bad b/c I didn't get much done on it when other people did, then got intrigued by the way lists show evolution, so did another one, and accomplished not very much. Or at least, not very much that I really think was important for me to accomplish. Which might not be evident from the list itself, of course.
One is supposed to come up with concrete, defined tasks that can reasonably be accomplished, in order to feel a sense of accomplishment. Either I suck at defining reasonable tasks, or I can't accomplish anything. Blah either way.
A lovely post. Thanks for sharing it with us.
jwb
Lovely, lovely frogs...
It is for the same reasons as above that I have avoided publishing any lists of my own, although I am a compulsive list-maker. I have one almost every day, but no one else but me gets to see what is crossed off & what remains to be done. 
Grin - and do I confess that I cheat and that the Administrator keeps my list at the office, and the Actress does at home, and I gleefully bumble from one to the other doing what I am told.
(Blogs starting with Um or Grin should not be taken totally seriously though they carry more than a grain of truth)
I also love/d Frog and Toad--in fact, when I got in touch with my childhood best friend a few years back, I read her some of Frog and Toad over the phone by way of apologising for all the silly things I did when we were teenagers.
I think one of my favourite stories in that line is Toad's justification to Frog of why it is far better to spend the day in bed, so he can't berate himself about things he hasn't done.
I also loved Toad for being short, stout and always running to catch up. Frog was leaner, better-looking and more self-contained 
Frog & Toad Together was the book my mother bought on the day I announced, "I learned how to read!" to make sure I hadn't simply memorized the book at daycare. And yes, I could indeed read. I adore Frog & Toad. Pseudonymous kid has a F&T book now, too, and it was only when I re-read it as an adult that I realized yes! F&T are gay.
I think if my parents were bright enough to realize that F&T were gay, they wouldn't have bought the book for me when I was three. I am thankful that I don't have bright parents. I still have that particular book, crayon on the cover and all. I also have another F&T book, from college, that has no crayon marks but is similarly loved. Since I don't have any kids, I was very adamant that my friends' son receive F&T books when he was very young. I think reading F&T should be required of all children before they enter kindergarten.
What a fantastic post. Without a doubt, the best post I've read on the subject of blog to-do lists. Thanks.
Oops, hit return before I was ready. I also meant to say, I never read F&T, but I'm heading over to Amazon after I leave here to order some for my daughters. Thanks for the implicit suggestion.
Arnold Lobel's stories are the philosophically richest of any writing. I read them to my students even at PhD level, to teach 'the philosophy of method'. The list also provides a brilliant 'critique of Fordism'. Lobel was one of the wisest persons of the 20th Century... he is attuned to the marvellous philosophical sophistication of the young child - which we lose with adulthood. Lobel was a genius who understood the genius of children.
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