Michelle Cottle

And just give yourself some grace.

Take care of yourself.

You can run yourself ragged and you can beat yourself up because you're not going to be perfect at this and you're going to drop the ball sometimes.

But you're doing the best you can.

As you know, I am obsessive about talking about this.

I really appreciate it.

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I'm Michelle Cottle.

I cover national politics for Times Opinion.

And I'm back this week with my usual partners in crime, the fabulous columnists, Jamel Bowie and David French.