I love this image of a hand reaching for the light at the end of the tunnel. It’s a perfect representation of how I am feeling at this very moment.

Future listeners, I want you to know how absolutely obsessed I have been over the last few months about Armenian Enough and what I want it to be – what I dream it can be!

There have been several nights where I laid awake well past any reasonable hour and played out interviews in my mind. My podcast is practically all I want to talk about these days. It’s the subject of small talk at gatherings with friends, family, and colleagues. Once upon a time, I used to pride myself on being a good listener, but now, half-way through conversations, I find myself thinking, “Would this be a good topic to discuss on the podcast?” or “Would this person make a good interview subject?” I’m telling you… obsessed!

In my fantasy life, someone else would be doing all the grunt work of creating a website, researching the best microphones and editing software, learning how the heck all of the various platforms, search engines, and software fit together, and definitely, someone else would be learning how to promote it all on Instagram! This has all been a huge learning curve for me (confession: I’m still not completely there!) In this fantasy, I would simply interview fascinating guests, ask novel and deep questions, and my listeners would be riveted to every episode… while somebody fanned me with palm fronds and fed me peeled grapes! Why not?!

However, there is a particular satisfaction that comes from toil and effort expended to make one’s dreams come true. And I am getting to experience that. I don’t know why this idea of a continuing conversation about our place in this culture, in both cultures, has called to me the way it has. But it has. 

Thank you for being a part of it.