Creating Opportunity Out of Desperation

One week (and a few hours) from today, I’ll be on a flight from San Francisco to Madison, Wisconsin. Stefan and I are spending the summer in the Midwest, moving our base of operations to — drum roll! — my parents’ basement.

If clichés are any indication of reality, every proper artist spends some portion of her adult life living in her parents’ basement. Maybe most do it earlier on.The decision was difficult to make for a moment, heavy with the stigma of “going back” after trying to cut it in...