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Unmuted & Unedited November 2026 The Pre-Holiday Triage: Lowering the Bar Early It’s barely November, and I already feel an overwhelming urge to say, “Let’s circle back in January.” There is no mathematical way this is the same Daylight Saving Time I casually bounced back from in my twenties. This year, it hits entirely different. Why am I running on absolute empty when the universe allegedly gifted me an extra hour of sleep? Just add it to the ever-growing tab of things to

Unmuted & Unedited Wrestling With My Own Ghosts What I really want to do is publish a collection of personal essays. There. I haven’t just whispered it to myself—I’ve officially stamped it into a newsletter and broadcast it to over a hundred inboxes. Lately, I’ve been chipping away at this manuscript in the margins of life. Between raising a family, working a full-time gig, and juggling several freelance deadlines, free hours don't magically appear. But carving out the ti