Hello dear readers, I am so happy to be back in your inboxes. For me, the new year is the new school year—I can’t shake that rhythm so deeply set within my bones. And with that “new year” feeling, I’ve made some changes to rhythm and features here on A Wonderful Mess. I’ll will pointing them out along the way, one feature is the return of audio for essays (except for Q&As and heavily linked pieces). If you are new here, you can listen by clicking right on this page to my reading of this essay, or you can set up the podcast feed so that it comes directly to your podcast player of choice. The audio essays will be available for posts published between September and May because summer recording is just not in the cards.

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