Editor’s Letter
OUT and ABOUT Recently, after a long drought of social obligations other than with close friends, I had two work events to attend in one week. And I am here to tell you, I am out of practice being out and about. After two pandemic years spent mostly at home, I’ve missed having easy conversations around a restaurant table while catching up with friends or meeting colleagues I’ve only ever seen on Zoom. It’s exciting to be easing back into the swing of life, but it’s also unfamiliar. I feel a bit socially awkward these days with questions of when to interject, when not to interrupt, who picks up the bill. It also seems we have been given new permission to be homebodies and a little antisocial, blissfully so. There’s an undeniable pleasure…