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Checking in back in September with Paul Boschi, event producer extraordinaire (but with very little now to produce), and also an American abroad, to get his perspective on life in Europe and also on the sidelines. Also – there’s an election coming up. Maybe you heard?

Like so many of us, Prof. Catherine M. Christopher, JD is dueling for internet time with her three children and husband as they all try to make online school make some kind of sense. Also, your host gets an education on view of the world from Lubbock, TX.

We’re back with new episodes after a short hiatus, starting with the conversation from July, where we checked in with Candace, our correspondent in Raleigh, North Carolina. After several months of forced unemployment, she found returning to restaurant business to be dangerous, exhausting, and ultimately untenable.

Yes, Georgia is a mess right now… and so is the criminal justice system. Courts are closed, people are sitting in jails waiting for trial, and no one knows how to move forward. All this and more in my conversation with Joshua Schiffer, Esq. of ChancoSchiffer, P.C., a criminal defense and civil rights lawyer in Atlanta.

School is out for summer here in NYC (whatever that means), and so we checked in again with 4th grade teacher Lindsey, who has a lot to say about remote learning past and future.

With the country a crazy patchwork of inconsistent policies and ever-shifting amounts of fear and concern, photographer Michael is doing something most of are still far from attempting – traveling for work. What’s it like to fly in coronaland? Stay in hotels? Visit offices? Let’s find out.

During a very strange and confusing week, where things seem to be improving here in New York and also going to heck just about everywhere else, we check in again with our very first guest, Angie – a graphic designer and mother of two who isn’t much more sure of where she stands at three months in than she was on day one.

Solidarity, surrealism, solace, and the betting odds on a second American Civil War, as we check in again with Wisconsin college professor Naomi, who has been finding a new way through the COVID crisis by attending Black Lives Matter protests.

Collin Lyle Howard is a singer and actor here in New York, and the explosion of the Black Lives Matter movement have inspired him to find himself in another way - as an activist.

Over the course of a weekend, everything changed again. Tragic violence brought simmering anger to a rolling boil, and many who had been self-quarantined were now hitting the streets to march and protest. I turn to one of my one of my closest friends to try to work it all through.