Everything Looks Different From Here

What if the cage door isn't locked?

For years, Meghan Herwehe and her husband had a recurring calendar reminder asking a deceptively simple question: When can we hiatus?

The answer was always: not yet.

There were jobs to climb, a house to manage, a child to raise, money to earn, and an endless list of adult responsibilities. Then the pandemic arrived, Meghan's demanding corporate career became ten-to-twelve-hour days of video calls, and the life she'd worked so hard to build began to feel in...