If you don’t follow Twitter or my Facebook page, you may have been wondering where The Conversation has been for the past month. The short answer is San Francisco, where I recorded ten new conversations and began the slow work of exploring nonprofit incorporation, partnerships, fiscal sponsorship, and grant funding. Between recording new material and financial mucking around, I set editing aside for the duration of the trip—there’s only so much of The Conversation I can squeeze into a day without melting.

Now I am back home and hunkering down in front of the laptop to edit the next episode, hopefully in time for a weekend posting. Want to know what my editorial cue looks like? It’s exciting and daunting:

• Walter Block
• Carlos Perez de Alejo
• Charles Bowden
• Ed Finn
• Joan Blades
• Jason Kelly Johnson
• Charles Hugh Smith
• George Lakoff
• Rainey Reitman
• Rebecca Costa
• Kim Stanley Robinson
• Peter Gleick
• Rebecca Solnit
• Lisa “Tiny” Gray-Garcia

The new wave of interviews begins with Joan Blades. I will probably run all of these but, as usual, I’ll have to start editing before I can figure out which interviews have a good narrative arc and which ones I flubbed.

Anyhow, sorry to keep you all waiting. Let’s get back to this.