Welcome to The Dispatch. The idea is simple: once a week, one of us checks in with what's actually going on. The job, the family, the kids, where you're living now, what you're into these days. Long or short, whatever you feel like.

We've been running this thing for over a decade, and half of us only turn up on draft night. I'm tired of finding out someone got married, had a kid, or moved across the country a year after the fact. So we're fixing it. Fourteen of us, one a week, all season.

I'll kick it off. Then you're on the clock.