Sometimes in life, we do not schedule the mailbags, but the mailbags schedule us.
I intended to answer your mid-July questions before … well, before the season started, that’s for sure. As luck would have it, many of them still apply — or actually apply to an even more meaningful degree — and so I present to you the Better Late Than Never, Or At Least Better By Mid-September Than Not At All Mailbag, 2026 Edition.
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Let’s dive into the mail. Questions have been lightly edited for length and clarity.