It's Been a Minute.

A Monday hello.

Hi. It’s me. (I’m the problem, it’s me.)

I apologize for being somewhat M.I.A. over the past month or so. I had a good run for a while. I was cranking out interviews and sending weekly greetings every Monday and publishing bonus content on Wednesdays and thinking constantly about how to make Creative Reverberations better, more attractive, more exciting, ALL THE THINGS!

And then…I hit the proverbial wall.

I burned out. Bad.

It all got to me—the fatigue of running my own publication and making almost no money from it, while simultaneously getting rejected or ghosted by traditional outlets, as the news spins out of control and social media devolves into a mess of AI slop and bot-written posts.

Next Avenue, one of my stable writing homes for the past 5 years, will be gone soon, so I’ve been sending pitches to various digital magazines, only to be told that they no longer have money in their freelance budget. I put up a post in a journalism group on Facebook, asking if my fellow entertain…