https://owntheleap.com/tags/writing-publicly/Recent content in Writing Publicly on Own The LeapHugoen-usTue, 07 Jul 2026 00:00:00 +0000https://owntheleap.com/posts/the-reader-i-didnt-plan-for/Tue, 07 Jul 2026 00:00:00 +0000https://owntheleap.com/posts/the-reader-i-didnt-plan-for/<p>July 7. Inbox at 7:08. Twenty-three days in one column, fifteen in the other. I am aware of the math without looking.</p> <p>Zoe was up before me, which almost never happens in the summer. She was at the kitchen table with a bowl of cereal and her phone, and when I came in to make coffee she looked up and said, &ldquo;Is that thing with the emails still going?&rdquo;</p> <p>I said yes.</p>