This week, we're here a day early! I get to spend the day before Thanksgiving with someone who’s been in my life since we were awkward teenagers trying to make sense of the world: my friend Varinia Rodriguez—poet, writer, and the author of The Jellyfish Dream.

We sit down for a cozy holiday episode and play my a new Turkey Day game, Kameron’s Cute Little Thanksgiving Grati-tour, where we trade stories about the things we’re genuinely grateful for. I also read the section about Varinia from A Mural in Space, which somehow manages to be both sentimental and grounding at the same time—exactly the way our friendship has always worked. Then we shift into SIP/SAVOR/SPILL, answering questions about our most vapid takes, what we’d do if we suddenly had all the money in the world, and the things we used to think were dealbreakers in a partner… until life taught us better.

It’s warm, honest, funny in the right places, and exactly the kind of conversation that makes the holiday season feel like something worth celebrating.

Check out Varinia’s book here:

https://www.lulu.com/shop/varinia-rodriguez/the-jellyfish-dream/paperback/product-7k8459k.html?page=1&pageSize=4

Check out South Broadway Press here:

https://southbroadwaypress.org/books-2/