Dear Reader,

I hope you're recovering well enough from the holiday assault. In a rational society they'd give us holidays to recoup from our holidays. But who listens to me?

Anyway, here I am again with a slightly different newsletter this week. It contains a poem and a list as per usual, but this time I’ve attempted an illustrated short story with illustrator Akshita Sinha. I'd love to know what you think.

The dispatch this week dives into conversations, the ones that are too vapid to consider meaningful and those that are so intimate, they’re almost uncomfortable. If you were subject to either situation, what kind of conversation would you prefer? Tell me, I'd love to know.

Meanwhile, I hope you enjoy reading the third dispatch as much as I loved writing it.