Venting! Plus, Dar Williams

A Tuesday hello.

Greetings!

Today is brought to you by the letters M, I, G, R, A, I, N, and E.

With that in mind, bear with me as I try to pull together a coherent thought. Kind of tough when it feels like someone is drilling a hole into the back of my eyeball.

I hope you had a nice week since my missive last arrived in your (e)mailbox. Last week was a busy one for me. My son started 8th grade (omg) and had his annual physical, where we learned he grew a thousand inches. (Fine. Maybe not that much, but he keeps getting taller by the second and it’s only a matter of months before he’s looking down at me, which is really bizarre.)

On Thursday, Next Avenue published my interview with husband-and-wife rockers Pat Benatar and Neil Giraldo. It was an interesting one. Both wanted to be part of the interview, but they couldn't meet at the same time. So I did Pat’s interview first. Zoom was acting weird—she couldn’t see me at all, and I could only see a frozen image of her. We spent the first three minutes loggi…