Can We Leave Yet?

Getting ready to check out for the season

Hey friends. I’m heading toward the checkout lane after weeks of rotating illnesses, back-to-back deadlines, exciting but emotionally complex highs (did you see I have a book coming out next year?!), and revelatory conversations (and a couple cry sessions) with many many students— the kind of conversations that remind me why being with people is good and necessary. But now I’m ready to retreat.

I hope you’re packing up and heading out too.

I do not have a holiday gift guide for you, though I’ve already spent too much money on total crap for the kids. Fucking capitalism. Below, however, are some things I’m enjoying or am looking forward to enjoying soon.

I have a few more posts to share here after I fully wind down the academic semester, but I have some changes planned for this newsletter in the new year, so I’ll be taking a month off my work here for some much needed rest, re-calibration, and book stuff. If you have the luxury to do something similar, here are some things to take with you: