September 1 is âFight Procrastination Dayâ! Here are 10 tips to keep you going.

Found money no small change

I recently got a phone call from a local woman named Marlene Cerveny about a story idea and I called her back after much procrastination. She had given me a tip a couple of years ago for a feature on Paramount manager Rick Bellavance who was leaving his job to go to seminary school.

Active procrastination can push the stress away

My procrastination only grows as my time at UCLA passes. Apparently, it doesn’t go unnoticed. I often see posters advertising for its demise; anti-procrastination workshops seem to be sprawled everywhere around campus.

Favre, Saints to help NFL kickoff its regular season

All the exhibition games and the bizarre experimentation sessions around the NFL are over. We can close the cover on that book for this season. Now, it's time to move on to the much-anticipated regular season, which will start Thursday with a spectacular rematch of the NFC championship game.

Fiction review: 'Freedom' by Jonathan Franzen

Franzen can't be accused of lack of ambition. He likes big novels, set against the backdrop of public events, and in this book the event that hangs over everything is 9/11.