Inching Back to Reality! Plus, Jon Agee

A Monday afternoon hello.

Greetings!

I’m slowwwwwly inching my way back into work after spending a week down the Cape. (Cod, that is.) I had a fantastic time. My family and I visited seven bookstores (and I walked away with a few new books). We beached. We relaxed. We made glass. We saw art. We ate way too much ice cream. All in all it was a lovely time, despite the overwhelming heat.

But now, I’m back to it. The grind. The hustle. Well…kind of. I’m mostly just going through old emails that I’ve ignored forever and trying to clean my overly cluttered desk. The hustle can wait a bit.

I did get some good work news last week. First, PBS shared my Next Avenue interview with Wendell Pierce on its social media pages. And—in what may be the most random news ever—I learned that this here Substack was mentioned in The Week, a national print publication!

My husband’s cousin reached out when she saw my name in an issue. I had no idea what she was talking about, so I used my library’s Libby app to find the publication and cam…