I suddenly lost my ambition

Plus updates from the land, mothering a second child, and a baby in sunglasses

Illustration by Stephanie Davidson

Hi folks, my heroes, my paid subscribers. I want to write directly to you for a bit, in this cozy, smaller space, a little more openly. That’s a funny thing to say for a writer of personal essays, but typically when I write about personal subjects, they are the events and experiences that I have already spent a whole lo…