The universe has good news for the lost, lonely, and heartsick.
The sugars are here speaking straight into your ears.
I'm Steve Almond.
I'm Cheryl strayed.
This is dear sugars.
Oh dear.
So won't you please.
Share some little sweetness with me?
I check my bell rides every day.
Oh, and the sugar you see in my way.
Hi, Steve.
Hi, Cheryl.
So here we are, part two of our updates episodes.
If you didn't listen last week, what we're doing in these two parts is looking back at some of the letters we've answered on past episodes and following up with those people to see what happened next.
I know so many people, just like Steve and I, we are always curious when we give that advice, what changes are going to be made or resisted, what advice is going to be taken or ignored, and we're going to delve more deeply into that today on this episode.
Now, one of the things that we've introduced in this past year as we started a column back in July, the sweet spot.
It runs in the New York Times, the actual paper, every Thursday in the style section.
And it can be found online every Tuesday, the Tuesday before it actually appears in the newspaper.
And we try to really choose letters that in some ways echo or evoke the subject of the episode that runs that same week that the column runs.
And we get responses.