Today is Global Accessibility Awareness Day!

It’s always good to remind ourselves about where we’re at in the accessibility space, and it’s good to remain aware of what’s happening in the wider accessibility space. According to the website accessibility.day, 98.1% of website homepages have at least one WCAG 2.0 failure. That’s so wild to me! I always assumed that web developers would have an easier time hitting accessibility measures than email developers, but I guess not!

So, how did email marketers do this year? Any better than the web devs? Worse?

Sad to say…we’re still a little worse.

My friends over at Email Markup Consortium tested over 400,000 emails and still found we’re severely lacking in the accessibility realm.

Want more information? Email Markup Consortium released its 2025 Accessibility Report today.

What’s causing this disconnect?

I think it’s a combination of education, job duties, and technology.

I feel like I’m always in a bubble when I talk about email accessibility, and I think there are always more people to bring into the space! So if you’re someone who cares deeply about email accessibility, please keep talking about it! The more people we can bring to the table, the better.

One of the biggest hurdles I see to accessible emails is throwing email design onto the shoulder of designers. In my perfect world, we’d have a nice collaboration between designers crafting lovely design systems and email marketers and/or email developers creating emails with well thought-out fonts, colors, and imagery. What we often find instead is email duties thrown onto the shoulders of overburdened designers or exploitative agencies who want pretty Figma designs, completely leaving out those who may have trouble reading the emails in the name of “brand”. There’s a middle ground here that I think is possible to find, we just need the will to find it.

The last piece of the puzzle, in my opinion, are ESPs complete lack of knowledge around best accessibility practices. Since we know a lot of email marketers are using visual editors, it’s up to the ESPs to craft accessible code, which on a whole is sorely lacking. I wish I had an answer to solving this problem. I feel like it would take a pretty big lawsuit against a major ESP to get anyone to make a move, and yet I can see a lot of obstacles to something like that happening since the emails themselves are created and sent by businesses.

If you work at an ESP, please start talking to whoever you can in your business about helping customers make accessible emails. You and your customers will win in the end!

If you would like more resources about accessibility, I’ve compiled a list of talks I’ve done, and some other industry resources.

Times I’ve talked about accessibility

• Email’s Not Dead: Prepping for EAA

• Email Camp: Fostering diversity and inclusion in the email development universe

• Email Einstein: Email Accessibility

• UNSPAM: Accessibility in Practice

Other Email Accessibility Resources

• Email Markup Consortium

• a11y.email by Sarah Gallardo

• A Complete Guide for More Inclusive and Effective Campaigns by Email on Acid

Hope this is helpful. As always, I love hearing from folks and I live and die by getting replies to this newsletter because Open Rates Are Dead.

Chat Soon,
Megan

Y’all. Oy vey. What news we got over the last week.

First off, sorry I went radio silent…again. (or if you’re new, hello!) My personal life keeps getting busier and busier. I love emailing you all and talking email. I’m gonna try to keep doing this, it might be less often, though. There have been a lot of shifts at my day job and I’m thinking through how I can keep bringing you all valuable content.

Would you subscribe to a YouTube channel if I started one? I found I enjoyed recording and editing the talk I gave at this year’s Parcel Unpacked. I love talking through code. I hate doing slides. So video seems like a good place for me to go. I could do some free mini-courses? Let me know what you think.

Anyway, let’s get to the point of today’s email. Are companies abandoning email marketers? It sure feels that way to me. With the recent acquisition of Litmus by Validity, and the laying off of many talented folks on day 1, I’m feeling a shift in the industry. I won’t be surprised if there are fewer conferences dedicated to our craft as companies try to reach out to more generalists/higher level employees/move into enterprise spaces.

It just feels like they care less and less about us. I wish I had answers of what to do about this, but I don’t. The world is uncertain, money reigns.

But I do think these companies ignore us at their peril. Because we are a scrappy, stubborn bunch. We are the ones who shift course on a dime whenever the ISPs throw something new at us (Yahoogle and Microsoft, anyone?). We are the ones who take our customer journeys seriously to keep the capitalistic wheels turning. I see you and the work you’re doing. Don’t give up.

Where the big players ignore us, opportunity will arise for new people and companies to move in and change things up. (I mean, look at BeeHiiv, the platform I use to send newsletter and their astronomical growth. They’ve taken on giants and are succeeding.)

So hang in there, we know a few things are true in life: death, taxes, and a changing email landscape.

We’re in this together. And if you’re job hunting and I can make any connections, please reach out.

Talk Soon,
Megan

P.S. for the love of god, someone hire Carin as your lifecycle marketing manager.

Here we are, in the middle at the end of October. Thank you to those who sent in your email projects! I loved looking at them. Here’s what you sent me last month:

• Thomas Defossez sent an email where you can get a panoramic view of the French concert hall L’Olympia. Peep the gorgeous button hover effects, too!

• Andrew Fumagalli sent me his take on a button hover that changes to a beautiful purple. We love a nice contrasting color to encourage an interaction.

Thank you for participating, fellow email devs! I know it can be hard to fit extra projects into your already busy lives, so I always appreciate it. Let’s get onto this month’s prompt, and I’ll share in the middle/end of November. (Side note: I totally intended on sending 2x/month, but that clearly failed. So we change the way we do things as we go, yeah?)

Feel free to send me something you’ve already coded, or create something totally new. To help you get started, check out this page from Good Email Code.

Happy coding, if you wanna chat, I’m only a reply away!

— Megan

P.S. Election day in the US — help us all — is November 5th. A lot is at stake. Make a plan, and go vote. This interview with Kamala Harris is incredible.

OH HI THERE!

After the last email, glad you chose to stick around! This fall/winter, I’m trying a new series that I’m calling (without much thought) Email Code Prompts! This idea came about after chatting with Dan Oshinsky last month about my newsletter, and I’m so excited to have some fun with y’all!

Here’s how it works. Each month until the end of the year, I will send out an email coding prompt. We’ll code and share our results. You can reply to this email and send me an HTML file (or Parcel link, whatever floats your boat). THe project can either be one you’ve worked on at your job or something completely new, doesn’t matter to me! Towards the end of the month, I’ll send out another email showcasing what you all came up with.

This is a work in progress. As we do this, any feedback or advice you have will be much appreciated! I’ve designed this to start with somewhat easy prompts. It’ll get more challenging as we head to the end of the year. Gonna walk before we run and all that, ya know?

ANYWAY! Ya ready? Here’s your first prompt:

Send me the results within the next two weeks, and before the end of September, I’ll share with everyone! Can’t wait to see what you build.

— Megan

Yooooooo!

Earlier this month I got on a call with Dan Oshinsky, the verified OP and expert on everything newsletters. I’ve long admired his work, and let’s just say this call did not disappoint. Keep an eye out for what came out of this phone call.

There’s not much to be had in this newsletter today except to let you know to keep an eye out. I’m planning some FUN things for this newsletter. I’ve long struggled with how to approach this thing and how it should evolve, and talking to Dan illuminated a lot things.

So get ready for lots of experiments as I figure things out. What I know for sure is that I want to dive more into email development, more into technical things, just more code and shop talk! So if you’re ready to jam with more advanced email dev topics, this will be the place for you!

To hold you over, here are some links to things I’ve been up to:

• Geeking Out released episodes about the future of email development and board games

• Dream career moment alert: Matt Helbig from Really Good Emails and I walked through past and present Email Camp designs

• Scott Cohen and Garin Hobbs from InboxArmy were kind enough to bring me on to talk Interactive Email

• Don’t forget that Email Camp registration is live and it’s free

That’s all! Keep an eye out at the beginning of September for the next email. Be prepared for audience participation.

SEE YA!

— Meg

I originally had planned to send out a newsletter about how my email design system is evolving, but in EmailGeeks I’ve been sucked into whether email development is still a viable career path. There’s been a lot of chatter about this lately, with articles by industry vets citing that email development as we know it is on the decline, and that we’re all going to have to go back to being generalists. This is especially timely as I hit my 3 year mark working at Sinch as their Senior Email Developer.

Anyway, I gave my answer about email development in the form of a voice note, so this is edited and condensed to make sense. Note these are strictly my opinions:

I think it's a very interesting time for email development because drag and drop editors are becoming more advanced. I think we'll do fewer basic emails, one-off templates, all that jazz.

And I think we're gonna move towards building out more comprehensive templates and email design systems and working on higher level tasks to make the code work in things like WYSIWYGs, visual editors, and different email builders.

My new perspective is that we can enable people build good email and I don't think email developers are going to go anywhere.

The doom and gloom perspective recently is that email developers are gonna have to stop niching and become generalists again.

I think enterprise companies will still need us. I think we will be needed for intense personalization and other more advanced coding, like interactive email or amp for email.

I think there's good work being done out there to bring email code up to standards. It’s going to be on email developers to keep talking about accessibility and how to build good emails, so we don’t need to give up quite yet. In my opinion, the future of email development is still bright.

Or at least I won’t go down without fighting!

I’m going to try to get back to writing consistently. See you in a few weeks, yeah?

— Megan

P.S. If you haven’t listened to it yet, Geek Out! With Megan and Carin is a really fun, mostly non-email related podcast that Carin Slater and I launched earlier this year. Video games! Anime! Board Games! We’ve got it all. Give it a listen and leave us a voice note or comment! We love hearing from people. And please share it, we need more plays, ha! 🙂

Hi hi!

Keeping today short and sweet. Why? Because…

CARIN SLATER AND I ARE STARTING A PODCAST!

Geek Out! with Megan and Carin. Logo designed by Najmah Salam.

What will we geek out about? Video games, parenting, anime, and of course, email! If you’re at UNSPAM April 15-16, come find us for stickers.

Listen to the trailer, share, and let us know if you’re as hyped as we are!

A real version of …it depends will hopefully come later this month, where I break down the interactive email we sent out on April 1. See ya then.

~ Megan

Hi! Hello! If it’s your first time here, welcome to my little newsletter. Come have a cuppa and let’s rant about email marketing and stuff. If you feel moved, I’d be grateful if you shared this issue with people you know! And if you extra like this newsletter, you can always buy me a cuppa tea.

I saw a great post on Linkedin recently.

It was written by the always incredible and insightful Val Geisler. She wrote about how most best practices don’t work for her because of the industry she’s working in. Because of course, when you’re dealing with children and families, everything is highly regulated to make sure no one gets hurt.

That means there are things you can and can’t say, a lot of review from legal, and strategies that you are unable to employ. What does this mean for best practices? Well, they don’t work.

And honestly? No matter your industry, you shouldn’t necessarily tie yourself to best practices, either.

Now, here me out. I’m not saying to never follow best practices, they exist for a reason! I just think we need to question things sometimes. It’s why answers almost always begins with “it depends…” instead of something definitive, and why we always say “run the test and found out”.

Your audience is different from my audience’s, which is different from the next email list’s audience, which is why we need to do the work to figure out how subscribers engage. Don’t forget — best practices are simply the average of everyone else.

Think about your email program. What can you do to break outside the box? Is there an experiment you can run? Have you ever done something outside of best practices and have it work? I’d love to hear about it.

An email dev tip!

Did you know interactive email works on outlook dot com!? I got on a call recently with Jay Oram of ActionRocket and he walked me through some code. It’s super easy! Usually we’re used to using radio inputs for our interactive emails, but outlook dot com instead uses a checkbox input and makes your entire label clickable. Switch to that and target your adjacent div that you want to show, and voila! interactive email in outlook dot com. Can’t be as fancy as Apple or Amp for Email, but it’s something!

Random recommendation

Anime fans! You have to watch A Sign of Affection. Every week is a ball of cute romance as you watch these two college students fall in love. It’s incredibly sweet and a good escape from the world.

I’m BEGGING someone to watch it and talk to me about it. So, please watch and email me back so we can gush together. I think my husband is tired of me recapping every episode!

Alright email fam, that’s all for this month.

Catch ya on the flipside,
Meg

P.S. The footer of this email might still show X despite the fact that I’ve changed it, so maybe it just needs a moment to catch up. You can always find me on LinkedIn and Instagram!

Gif by foxhomeent on Giphy

That was a … relatively short hiatus, eh? Maybe I was being a bit dramatic, I don’t know.

But anyway! We’re back! This is to say hi! I missed you all.

This is going to be the update dump email, but after this, probably once a month, this email will have three sections:

1. General thoughts about email marketing things

2. A quick email dev tip

3. A random recommendation that may or may not be industry related.

So! What have I been up to? Well, Email Camp: Mission Control happened, and I did an Email Debrief with my co-worker Julia and led a discussion about DEI in email development with some amazing women. This iteration of Email Camp was my favorite yet, and I can’t wait to see what we come up with this year.

For Email Camp we sent out a pretty awesome email paying homage to Star Wars and I’m still completely obsessed with it. Check out this video Hillel Berg and Najmah Salam put together for their Email of the Year series. Fingers crossed it wins, but it’s up against some other rad emails!

Parcel Unpacked 2.0 came and went, and I need to dive into some of the talks I missed. Anne Tomlin and I battled it out showing different email coding techniques! I’m #TeamDIV, but we learned that 90% of the audience did not feel the same way. Shoutout to Naomi and the Parcel team for putting on a great conference.

Julia and I have submitted what we think is a great proposal to InboxExpo to speak, so fingers crossed it gets chosen! Hopefully we’ll be there either way, let me know if you plan on going?

I’m also on the precipice of launching something really fun with a friend of mine, but I’m still sworn to secrecy. It’s been in production for a long while and I cannot wait to tell you all about it!

Anyway! That’s all for today. This is going to be low-key. A few Qs if you feel like replying (and please do I love hearing from people),

1. Would you like to see me writing about career stuff?

2. Anything in particular you’d like me to cover here?

3. Anything else on your mind?

Chat soon, email fam!
- Megan

P.S. I’m off X/Twitter/Whatever that hell site is now. Come over to Instagram though, we’re gonna have some fun, because we’re email developers!

Instagram post

Cadillac Mountain right after sunrise.

Hey friends,

Haven’t written in a while, and I didn’t want to ghost everyone. I wish I had something profound to write about burnout and priorities, but I don’t really. All I know is that it’s easy to overload yourself with tasks and things to do like it’s some virtue.

Anyway, after some thought while climbing up cliffs in Acadia National Park, I’ve decided to put this newsletter on hiatus for now. A lot has changed in the last few years, and as life gets busier, something’s got to give.

The hardcore American in me wants to scream that I’ve completely and utterly failed, but if I’ve learned anything, it’s that the art of letting go is just as important as the art of not giving up.

So I’m letting go.

I’m happy to keep chatting about email on Twitter (eff you Elon) and LinkedIn.

Keep in touch, keep sending awesome emails.

— Meg

At the time of sending this, I will have hit my two year anniversary at Email on Acid/Mailgun/Mailjet/Sinch Email/whatever we call ourselves now (it’s Sinch Email, though I often just say Email on Acid in most situations).

I feel like I’ve had more growth in my career in terms of maturity and industry in the last 24 months than I have in the last 13 years. Thought I’d share some things I’ve learned across the way if that’s okay?

Let’s do this.

1) Find your community.

Finding the emailgeeks community completely transformed my career. It allowed me to rapidly learn about email marketing/design/development in a way that I never would have on my own. I fully believe that I got to the next step of my career because of this place. Much love to the admins, y’all are the best.

Like all communities, you get what you give, so find your people, contribute, become friends with folks, and that will lead to opportunities. This is not an automatic/overnight ticket to an amazing job. You can’t be in it for yourself, but for others, too.

Be nice, build friendships, the rest will come.

2) Do it scared

Big job opportunity is presented to you and you know you can probably do the job but you’re scared? That’s the time to leap. I’ve always been skeptical about this piece of advice since it’s very typical, but it’s true. See point 1? This is where your community comes in. Talk to the few trusted people you’ve built up rapport with and ask their opinions. I can guarantee they’ll give it to you straight, and they’re more likely to tell you that you’re ready than not.

My interviewing process at EoA was wild (different story for a different time), and I would have probably lost my mind if it wasn’t for my friends Carin and Catherine, who both told me to keep going when what I really wanted to do was remove myself from the running. I’m so glad I listened to them, we are our own worst critic.

3) High performing teams are the key to putting out amazing work

Words like “high performing” and “innovative” used to scare me. I’m a simple person with a weird brain and these words felt too big for me to ever live up to. I always strived to be “the best”, but always felt like I’d fall a little short, and I could never figure out what was missing.

What I’ve learned is that innovation can’t happen in a bubble, and for most people, can’t happen on your own. Throughout my career I was an only. The only graphic designer. The only email marketer. There was no one else to bounce a lot of ideas off of or to help with execution.

Now I work with an incredible team that includes an amazing email marketing manager, graphic designers, multimedia specialist, and other content folks who help with brainstorming ideas and how to best execute.

It helps when we’re all having fun, too. Shout out to the core group I work with day in and day out — Julia (email ride or die!), Thomas, Kasey, Kim, and Francois.

(This is where I brag, sorrynotsorry)

Without the team surrounding me, we would have never put out an award-winning email campaign, a legendary April Fool’s email, or create an entire show dedicated to email development.

I know the job market is bad and scary right now in tech, and I hope this is helpful. If you have any questions, you can always reply and ask. I can’t promise to have all the answers, but I can try.

See you next time?
- Meg

P.S. if you’ve been on the list for a while, sorry it’s been two months since my last send. Things have been busy and honestly I’m really tired and trying to hold it together. Vacation is soon!

Fun fact: I don’t have images turned on in my gmail account. I did this as a grand experiment to see what my experience would be like as a receive dozens (I keep my inbox pretty lean) of marketing emails.

Let’s just say, it’s dismal out there. Most retail emails I get either use alt text poorly or don’t use it at all.

So, in the spirit of sharing, I’m going to begin doing email critiques. I don’t do teardowns and I won’t be sharing these emails publicly. This is exclusive to newsletter readers. I dislike when people publicly tear down emails, because as outsiders we don’t know scope and timing and resources.

I hope to lead with kindness and empathy and give helpful tips on how we can bring our emails to the next level.

Alright, that said! Recently I bought myself a pretty new barbell, the Texas Power Bar. It’s the OG powerlifting barbell out there, lasts, and isn’t insanely expensive, so it was a done deal for me.

After I received the barbell, I started getting marketing emails. I don’t even remember if I signed up for them.

Anywho, this is the email with images turned off.

email with images turned off.

As you can see here, I don’t know what this email is about! It’s clearly an all images email. I could just bounce, which is what someone who does not have the gift of sight would probably do, or I can turn on images.

scrolling gif of the Texas Power Bar email

I really like how this email looks. I’m going to break it down into smaller chunks and go over each section.

Hero Section

There are a few things I’d do with the first part of the email, below:

• Turn the background area into a background-image that goes across the entire body of the email, which would allow us to place the rest of the text and images above it.

• Make the headline live text

Hero Section: The Gif

I love this gif. It 100% caught my eye when I turned images on. I love how it shows the different cerakote options that are available (don’t ask me what cerakote is I have no idea, I got black [like my soul] brushed steel.).

My only gripe? The bar shaft moves a little when the color changes and that’s messy Photoshop to me. It’s one of those tiny things that bothers me a lot! When I make gifs I spend a lot of time fixing shifts between frames. But honestly, at first look I didn’t notice. So it’s not awful. But I would definitely tighten that up.

Still, A+ gif. This is a prime example of how you do it in email.

gif of barbell shaft changing colors between black, purple, blue, green, and red

Hero Section: Bottom

Not a lot of critique here. The text could be live, otherwise everything from above still applies.

One critical issue is that the CTA needs to be separated and created as live text for easy conversions and for the sake of screen readers. I’d also not use ghost buttons, and instead use a full background on the image so it stands out.

2023 in large white numbers outlined in red. Photo of a man holding a barbell in the front rack position. The barbell cap is in focus showing the Texas Power Bar Logo, which is the shape of Texas. Ghost button CTA says get your bar.

Body

This whole section should be live text. The larger chunks of text need to be aligned to the left. The text is very bold.

Visually, this isn’t a bad piece of graphic design. But is it helpful to people trying to make a purchase in email? I find the background a little distracting, and we have another CTA in an image, which isn’t ideal.

This email could easily achieve the same result with using live text.

Text on a crinkly paper background. A gray CTA with the words order now is at the bottom.

The Good

For those gifted with sight, it is a nice looking email. The GIF is great, they should keep using it.

Needs Improvement

The text and CTAs need to be moved to live text instead of being placed in the image. When images are used, there needs to be meaningful alt text added.

Companies lose a lot of money by not facilitating accessibility best practices! Start from easy wins like live and alt text, and keep iterating from there.

Did you like this? Reply back and let me know (I love replies more than open and click-through rates and it’s how I judge the success of my emails).

Do you want me to critique your email? You can give me context and what you’d like me to focus on, and I’m more than happy to take a look and share here. I promise I’m nothing but nice and constructive and we all need another set of eyes sometimes.

This was fun! If you enjoyed it and feel moved, you can now buy me a tea. 🙂 

Chat soon,
Megan

I’ve always called myself a minimalist when it comes to design. In my branding days, I was known for one and two color logos, and not going much beyond that. I think too much color, and by extension, too much design, clutters things.

Design should never hinder your message. Good design augments and complements your message. Like a nice one-column newsletter layout, or a simple hero image/headline/body text/CTA combo.

The same can be said for code. Efficient code often means less code. It’s easy to over-engineer things. I run into this a lot when working on my email design system. I’m not afraid to admit I have a lot of code bloat in some parts of it — I need to go back and clean some stuff up, since I’ve learned so much since starting this journey.

I want to make my designs and code awesomely simple. Awesomely simple means design and code come together in a way that’s accessible, maintainable, beautiful. I absolutely believe there’s a way to achieve all three without compromising anything. It might mean doing things differently (yes designers I know you love centered text), and different isn’t bad. It’s just different.

I’d love to see us all get rid of image-only emails (but the brand! creative directors everywhere cry. get over it I say back the brand will be fine. include email in your brand guidelines.) in favor of nicely designed images (with alt text!) and left-aligned text.

Below is an email example I like to use in general email marketing talks that I sometimes give to small groups. I adore this branding — the green on the darker blue speaks to me — but that text is a bit hard to read. So step by step I go through what I would do. The improvements are easy and immediate.

From left to right, we have the original, original + left-aligned text, then the text broken up into smaller paragraphs. I know which one I prefer. (You can view the original on RGE.)

Interested in knowing what kind of email newsletters I like? I’ve curated a collection on Really Good Emails.

Happy designing/ coding, and chat again soon,
Meg

P.S. Haitian Fight Song by Charles Mingus is one of the favorite big band jazz songs. It’s joyful and cacophonous, and something moves in me when the upright bass kicks in. You should listen.

Hi! Hello! If it’s your first time here, welcome to my little newsletter. Come have a cuppa and let’s rant about email marketing and stuff. If you feel moved, I’d be grateful if you shared this issue with people you know!

I switched to BeeHiiv, so do let me know f you see any issues. Hopefully deliverability will be a bit better! The design is a work in progress as I learn more about the platform.

When did December arrive? WHEN!? whew. What a year.

Anyway, I dislike those prediction blog posts that a lot of email companies put out. What are our predictions for 2023!? Will we personalize emails even more? What about dynamic content? Will amp for email finally take off? Who the eff knows for sure, not me! I can't even predict what my next week will look like (unless I look at my calendar. Which is hopefully up to date. and hopefully I don't forget an appointment multiple times even if I do look at my calendar. this is too specific. moving on.)

So, since we can only control what we can control, let's talk about what we need to do in the new year.

Change the copyright!

This is so easy to forget. I've forgotten! You've probably forgotten! We've all forgotten. An easy way to get around this is to use dynamic scripting, if your ESP supports it. That way, your automated campaigns update as soon as that clock hits midnight on December 31 (Jan 1? I'm always confused about how to refer to midnight) and you don't have to worry about a thing.

No scripting language available and you need to update a ton of emails? If you use components in your email design system (you have one, right?), you can just change that date, re-export the code, and load it up into your ESP. Or you could go straight to the ESP and change each campaign. Personally, I have a tendency to mess something like that up, so I like to just load all the code back in again. You do you.

Audit your email designs

Are your designs still working? Here are some things to check:

• Are your colors accessible to people who are colorblind?

• Are your paragraphs left-aligned?

• Is your font-size at least 16px?

• Is your unsubscribe link easy to find and click?

• Do your emails heavily rely on images? Can any of the content be moved to live text?

Practicing good design principles can help any email design shine - make sure you're following them!

Check your KPIs

How did your emails perform this year? Did engagement drop off anywhere? This is a great time to craft and plan some good A/B tests. Can you test some copy? Or maybe see how different layouts perform. What if you sent a long email vs a short email, or a more designed one vs. less designed? Every audience is different and can change on a whim - never make assumptions.

End of Year Rec's

What's an end of year email without giving some recommendations!? Here are some things I've enjoyed over the last year:

1. Spy x Family is this year's best anime. Catch up on the current season, then switch to reading the manga. The music is pretty great, too.

2. Stray is short and arty and gorgeous and I cried and it was amazing.

3. The Wonder Years reboot is wonderful and connects to the original in a surprising way. I'm unclear on whether season 2 is happening, and I hope it does.

4. Mom and Dad are Fighting is a parenting podcast I love to throw on while I'm in the car or doing chores. Zach, Elizabeth, and Jamilah bring humor and empathy to all sorts of parenting questions.

5. Ask a Manager is a website all about career stuff. There are some incredible (in good and bad ways) stories told there.

See ya around the interwebs,Meg