A few weeks ago, my uncle put us in touch with a friend of his, Gill Frank, a postdoc at UVA. During this pandemic, Gill has started a podcast where he talks with kids about their experience of coronavirus. He interviewed Benji a couple weeks ago. (Remember the ice cream sandwich for breakfast incident? That bribery was for his cooperation with this interview.)

I was very interested to hear Benji talking with a different adult about his experience and thoughts — it reminded me that there’s a lot more going on inside his head than we, his parents, sometimes see. (Of course, since he narrates aloud 99% of his activities, there’s also a lot going on that we do see.)

Benji’s episode just went live the other day. Here it is: