My next-door neighbor is seventy-four and shovels his driveway with military precision every time it snows more than an inch. I always felt a weird pressure because he'd have his entire driveway cleared down to the black asphalt before I even got my boots on. During a heavy blizzard last January, I woke up at six AM to beat him to it. I grabbed my shovel and pushed open the garage door, expecting to see him already hard at work...