Burn Notice

Admitting that a vacation is not enough, the business of freelance journalism is very broken, and I am burned out

Photo by Patrick Hendry

I have been playing whack-a-mole with an existential writing crisis for months. There are weeks when his buck-tooth face remains hidden. And then—pop-pop-pop!—he taunts me for days and I chase him back into the ground, wondering where and when he’s going to resurface. 

The first time I said the words out loud—maybe I don’t want to …