It started with a DM. In the fall of 2011, amid a midcountry job search from Baltimore to Chicago, I slid into the DMs of a local editor. That following spring I started freelancing for her and the rest, you can say, is not only editorial history—it was the start of a long-lasting friendship.
The boss-to-mentor-to-friend pipeline isn’t rare. Perhaps my favorite example of this often intergenerational relationship is that of characters Rebecca Welton and Keeley Jones in the Apple TV sports comedy Ted Lasso.
