Grace under pressure

Summer break(s), the anniversary of a story of heroism and tragedy, and 7 other things worth your time.

Look at that. I’d planned to take a week or so off—and, well, it turned into two weeks.

My wife and daughter and I were in New Hampshire visiting family, hanging out on the lake near the house, and basically enjoying being anywhere other than home.

(I should mention: we had negative coronavirus tests before we left, and we wore masks constantly. Plus, the area we were visiting is quite rural to begin with. We were very careful.)

I really needed this time away, and I’m grateful for the opportunity. The truth is that I was getting burned out, maybe even more than I realized, having written at least one article or newsletter (often several) almost every single day, weekends included, since at least August 2018.

I’m going to take a couple more breaks like this — shorter, I think — before the summer is out.

Besides the chance to get away, I needed time (and need a bit more) to think more about my plans for this whole thing—meaning Understandably.

More on that to come—and I’ll have some ques…