Happy Friday! This week I went back to the basics—right to the “beginner” recipes. No kneading. An overnight rise. A simple dough that didn’t require technique so much as willingness. I made two loaves by hand and one in the bread machine. A small spark of motivation, that’s all it took. Three loaves later, we’ve been eating fresh bread all week. Other than the unexpectedly dark crust on one of them, there were no complaints. Only the quiet delight of something homemade, something I had been...