When it comes to communicating, I am pretty good about getting back to people. But if you send an email to joncoen@thesandpaper.net, it might take a while.
Truth is, I don’t check that email all that often. Mostly because more than 99 percent of it (not an exaggeration) is spam. The less-than-1 percent is usually someone with a funny comment in response to my column. Once in a while I get an angry email from a homophobe or climate change denier in response to something I wrote. I love those.
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