Produced by the ilab at Wbur Boston.
The universe has good news for the lost, lonely, and heartsick.
Sugar is here, the both of us speaking straight into your ears.
I'm Cheryl Strade.
I'm Steve Almond.
This is dear sugar radio.
Oh, dear someone, won't you please share some bit of sweetness with me?
I check my mailbox every, every day for some bit of sugar that you'll send my way.
That's Angela Freeman, Ann Wunderlead.
Wow.
Welcome, everyone.
Thanks for coming out.
We're here tonight for, really, a special recording of Dear Sugar radio Live.
And that is, it's part of this big thing called writers resist.
How many of you in the room are writers?
How many of you love someone who is a writer?
So, as you all know, this past election season was a brutal one.
And many of us woke up or maybe never went to sleep the night of the election in a state of despair and fear and befuddlement and anger.
And very quickly, everyone I know started saying, what next?
What do we do?