Thankfully, I don’t usually spend too much time pondering this impossibility. But, it was a treat to have an excuse to put some thought to what I’d want to do if I could freeze time. Here’s what I came up with: I would…

• Savor my cup of coffee and a Blue Sky muffin over the NY Times every morning before work.
• Make up for all the training I missed when I had the flu last month, and run the Staten Island Half Marathon that I was signed up for today.
• Read all the books I’ve always wanted to read.
• Study my German intensively and become fluent by my next visit.
• Travel around the world and make sure I don’t miss a single country.
• Make sure my little nephew doesn’t grow up one bit without me being there for it.
• Enjoy my visits with mein Schatz for a hundred times longer.

But that’s just me. Click here to read what other people would do if they could stop time.