The Digest: Happy fourth anniversary to this newsletter

I run loads of laundry and clean Q’s apartment on Tuesdays and Fridays, and last Tuesday, I carried my laptop in my bag. The bag is too heavy. It tweaks my shoulders. It reminds me I’m near (...at) an age for back pain. Or, worse, an age where I talk about back pain.

My novel-in-progress, Dream Big, Inc., had neared the 300-page mark. I’ve never written 300 pages of anything before.

Seeing my excessive word count makes me feel like Adam Scott in Severance …

…but when I finally have to read these th...