I originally shared this with paid subscribers, but due to popular demand, I’m re-releasing this conversation so that everyone can listen. Hi friend, Recently, I sat down with Jon Batiste, my beloved husband—and the Oscar- and Grammy-winning artist—to make something very special for you. Crosslegged on the floor of his studio, equipped with a couple of microphones and some powerful questions from this community, we dove in. As we talked, we did what we aspire to do when journaling—we showed up as our most unedited, unvarnished selves.

Before we get a started, a quick note: Regular readers of my Substack may notice something new this week: Hyperlinked text, which had previously been black, like the rest of the text, is now green, to match the Uni Watch color scheme. I’d been requesting this change for ages, and for some reason it was surprisingly difficult to get done, but it was worth the wait! Big thanks to Substack engineer Ben Cohen for making it happen.

(FNC Entertainment) Like Australia and the United States, there is a surprising number of Canadians who end up in the Korean entertainment scene. Kevin and Jacob from The Boyz, Henry Lau, Somi, Tablo from Epik High, Wendy from Red Velvet and Mark Lee from NCT are just some of them! So imagine my excitement when I discovered yet another Canadian K-pop idol fairly recently. Keeho from P1Harmony grew up in Markham, not far from my native Scarborough.

The University of Colorado released the report from the internal investigation of its cross country and track & field programs last week. The full 82-page report has been made public, thanks to reporting from Runner’s World’s Cindy Kuzma, and she summarized the findings here. (I recommend reading that article, along with her earlier pieces on the topic, for all the background and details.) This is a continuation of this week’s Fast Women newsletter, in which I shared eight takeaways from the report.

In my garden is a magnolia tree, starburst-pink against the March sky. Buried in book edits, and working extra shifts at the bookshop, for weeks I have been a creature of pencils and pages but this morning, stepping out to feed my hen I looked up and there—as much of a surprise as the first day I saw it—was a towering cascade of flowers, almost as high … ncG1vNJzZmikkaq%2ForzArJ%2BbsV6owqO%2F05qapGaTpLpwvI6aZKaZl6O8rbXAZqSaqA%3D%3D