Dear Jay: So you pre-announced yourself as the winner of the worst mixtape ever contest, tried to start a feud over my inclusion of “Don’t Stop Believin'” on my sample playlist, and then hightailed it out of town, claiming you’re going to ride 100 miles in the Arizona desert, even though we all know the real story: you’ve withdrawn to ...

Hi there. Yesternight1 at ye olde woodshoppe, I was a little out of my element. There’s always this fundamental struggle between my need to try new things and my intense dislike for feeling like a complete novice, as if my demonstrated ineptitude in one realm was going to spill over into the rest of my life, and then I become ...

Dear Friends: Finally, my life’s mission has become apparent. It is my job to have at least one conversation with every single human being on the planet. I feel like I made quite a dent today. I didn’t pick this goal at all, it just seems to have been assigned to me, and who am I to argue? I obey. ...

Dear Friends: You know it’s going to be good when your first question of the day (at 4am) is, “At what point does ‘bleeding’ become ‘hemorrhaging’?” I’ll let you know, because I think I’m close to finding out. Jenni