If you could take off a year or two, what would you do?

Taking a year off ain’t happening any time soon for me. Not for decades. Four kids, my career struggles, and so on. And I’m not even sure I’d want a year off if I had the opportunity. But it’s an interesting mental exercise — kind of like I wrote about in one of my other stories (Where would you live if you could live anywhere?)

So:

• I’d read a lot. Every day for hours. Fiction and non-ficiton. Famous novels and modern authors.
• I’d do a master's degree in English. English is not my…