The New York Times has a fascinating article on a fascinating woman: Chanel Reynolds, Seattle woman, widowed single mother, and creator of the website GetYourShitTogether.com.

In the days after Chanel Reynolds’s husband was hit while riding his bicycle near Lake Washington here and the best-case possibilities just kept getting worse, she was not yet consumed by grief. There were no dogged middle-of-the-night Web searches for faraway cures for his crushed upper spine or tearful bedside vigils with their 5-year-old son.

Instead, the buzz in her brain came from a growing list of financial tasks that grown-ups are supposed to have finished by the time they approach middle age.....The result is a [GetYourShitTogether.org]. The site offers some basic financial advice, gives away free templates for a master checklist and provides starter forms to draft a will, living will and power of attorney. There’s also a guide to starting a list of all of the accounts in your life that someone might need to access and shut down in your absence.

If the Stranger gave Genius Awards in getting your shit together, Chanel Reynolds would win one. Go read the whole thing.