Are you having any fun?
Unpopular opinion: I like an easy puzzle. The kind you can start and finish in a couple of hours. The kind where you pick up a piece and can tell what it is and were it goes, and its shape doesn't fool you into thinking it fits somewhere it doesn't. Another unpopular opinion: Work should be fun. I know what some of you are thinking: It's called work for a reason. (I heard those words verbatim from a colleague years ago during a discussion about job satisfaction and it has stuck with me all this time.) And what does this have to do with puzzling? ⚘ ⚘ ⚘ I haven't always chosen an easy puzzle. Historically I've gravitated towards puzzles that feel like a challenge and make me go a little bit crazy: puzzles with impressionistic images where the pieces for the water and the sky and the trees all somehow look the same; puzzles with modern prints with large sections of solid colors. These are the puzzles that occupy my dining table (and my time) for days and nights, even...