Like so many people, I am working from home and wondering how long it will before things return to normal. I’ve recently completed a novel manuscript that I’ve submitted to my agent and have begun, tentatively, to work on another.

To keep myself sane and motivated I’m listening to Sugar Calling a podcast by Cheryl Strayed where she interviews writers like Margaret Atwood and George Saunders in a quest for wisdom, courage and insight in these uncertain times. My other go-to is the Poetry Unbound podcast, which provides a welcome break from Covid-19 updates but is still a space to contemplate the world and our place in it.