The List I Won't Write Down

Fri, 22 May 2026 00:00:00 +0000

Thursday, second coffee, before a call that will definitely run long. I had seven minutes and I did what I’ve been doing with every scrap of found time lately: I tried to start the list.

Not a list I can put anywhere yet. I’ve done the health insurance research, or, not exactly done, I have two spreadsheet tabs and a saved bookmark for a healthcare.gov calculator I haven’t run all the way through. But I know the shape of it now: COBRA would be $1,840 a month for our family, which is enough to take seriously. The ACA marketplace option, depending on what I project for year-one income, might come out close to $1,100. Neither number is what I had in my head before I looked, which was something between “impossible” and “paralyzing” with no actual figure attached. The real figures are manageable. Annoying, but manageable. I did not expect to feel that way about them.

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The List I Won't Write Down