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Hello! I am writing this from Florida, where I have just returned after a cruise of the Caribbean with my parents to celebrate their 50th wedding anniversary. (Everything that needs to be said about how I feel about my parents was said many years ago by Lefty Frizzell. And everything that needs to be said about cruise ship vacations was said a few years ago by David Foster Wallace.)

Anyway, soon I will be back, and in addition to resuming my Slog-n-Stranger chores, I’ll be doing a four-week encore run of my solo play A Short-Term Solution to a Long-Term Problem at Hugo House. Shows run March 23-April 14, Friday and Saturday nights, eight performances total. Full info and tickets available here.

David Schmader—former weed columnist and Stranger associate editor—is the author of the solo plays Straight and Letter to Axl, which he’s performed in Seattle and across the US. His latest...