Essay: The Story of Not Right Now
This week:
Not. Right. Now.
I hope you enjoy our new show. It’s super, super informal, and fun, and full of profanity, and personal, and — I hope — something you or a parent in your life can identify with, and maybe get some relief from.
It’s intentionally and decidedly NOT an advice show.
It is a once-a-week parasocial commiseration session about trying to raise kids and continue to be a human and maybe even a partner amid…all of this.
Listen to Not Right Now here https://www.notrightnow.show/
Read Claire's intro to Not Right Now in her Evil Witches newsletter here https://www.evilwitches.com/p/out-now-a-witchy-project-in-pod-form
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