Updates from My Pneumonia Weeks

'We Can Do Hard Things' show, Corporate America, and how to counter despair

Dear Ponder,

I’ve been trying to avoid writing to you for fear that my writing would appear “sub-par.” The reality is that I’m still recovering—very slowly—from pneumonia. I have no idea what caused it, but the fact that the ER misdiagnosed my condition as sinusitis rather than pneumonia had delayed my recovery. When I finally got the diagnosis from my p…