Small doses.

Self help from the hit.

Small doses.

We're talking at shit.

Small doses.

And keeping it real.

Small doses.

With me and in Seals.

It's so funky.

Welcome to another episode of Small Doses podcast.

Really excited about our guest today because she's someone that I've known for a really, really, really long time.

And it feels always so special to be able to bring in people to the space who are already like in my personal space.

Our guest, Mahogany Brown, is an author, a poet, and a mother, and an educator.

And I feel like those things combined make her a great person to talk about how COVID

affected young people and young people's lives during its height.

And doing so from an artistic point of view versus like a statistical point of view at the CDC or somebody who may have, you know, collected data in a numerical form. You know, they say historians tell the facts of the time, but the poets tell the feelings. And so we'll be talking to her today about her book as as long as there are birds in the sky, we can still breathe.

And this is a book. It's a YAA novel about young people during the outbreak of COVID and how it affected their lives.

I think for a lot of us who particularly remember being a young people, I really enjoyed being a young person.

And especially now that I'm an adult, I'm like, there's things about being an adult that I really appreciate.

Like I can eat ice cream without having to answer to anybody.

But man, as a young person, I was annoyed at being smarter than all the adults around me.

But I really took

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