The elastic days: When time plays tricks on us

The school administrator's words echo in my mind tonight: "The days go by slow but the years go by fast."

I've been pondering this paradox during a day filled with head-scratchers, creative breakthroughs, and the lightning-quick sting of another rejection letter. How fitting that while generating visuals for my film about lightning and fireflies, time itself seemed to flicker between crawling and racing.

Ten years ago, I was on top of my game in corporate Am…