Lane von Herzen: Recent Emails to the OIG Hotline

My Third Novel's Conclusion, My Heartbreak

My heart begins to break when I think about completing this particular book -- because this narrative has sustained me like no other story I've known. It's both more personal and more universal than my other works. But beyond memory and archetype, it's a cri-de-coeur about needing to become the person one is destined to be. And in the writing, I have met my own life's work, my own fated journey -- having the sense all the while that the pages are suffused with a resonance, an energy, an electrified field that defies explanation. Writers hope and pray to be overtaken by a work in this way -- to be conscripted into passionate service of a profound story. To experience it even once in a lifetime seems a great privilege. I still have several months before this novel is complete, and this constitutes my reprieve. Because I'm not ready for the beauty to end.

Wednesday, April 22, 2026

Recent Emails to the OIG Hotline

OIG Hotline, please see the following emails recently sent to the attention of your Office.

April 23, 2026

ATTN: OIG HOTLINE Re: Update, April 23, 2026, Conditionally Confidential, sent at 7:32 AM Pacific time.

April 22, 2026

ATTN: OIG HOTLINE Re: Real Estate Feedback, Confidential, sent at 8:28 PM Pacific time.
ATTN: OIG HOTLINE Re: DEI, sent at 2:25 PM Pacific time.
ATTN: OIG HOTLINE Re: Fwd: Battling False Information, sent at 12:13 PM Pacific time.
ATTN: OIG HOTLINE Re: Documentation of Recent FBI Allegations, sent at 11:57 AM Pacific time.
ATTN: OIG HOTLINE Re: Thank you for your call today, sent at 11:33 AM Pacific time.
ATTN: OIG HOTLINE Re: BPVH and MH, sent at 11:10 AM Pacific time.
ATTN: OIG HOTLINE Re: Respite, sent at 10:49 AM Pacific time.
ATTN: OIG HOTLINE Re: Addendum to Letter to Tom Lyons, sent at 10:26 AM Pacific time.
ATTN: OIG HOTLINE Re: Fwd: Documents for Listing xx Vxxxx Vxxxx Wxx, Confidential, sent at 6:12 AM Pacific time.
ATTN: OIG HOTLINE Re: An Open Letter to Tom Lyons, sent at 7:29 AM Pacific time.

April 21, 2026

ATTN: OIG HOTLINE Re: Fwd: Thank you for your inquiry!, sent at 11:01 PM Pacific time.
ATTN: OIG HOTLINE Re: Fungal RX as Prophylaxis for Birdie and Poppy, sent at 10:55 PM
ATTN: OIG HOTLINE Re: Fwd: Receipts, April 21, 2026, sent at 10:39 PM Pacific time.
ATTN: OIG HOTLINE Re:Fwd: Care for Birdie MacWilliams/Poppy MacWilliams, sent at 9:56 PM Pacific time.
ATTN: OIG HOTLINE Re: Fwd: Tour of "Lofts on the Mesa," Flagstaff, Arizona, sent at 8:58 PM Pacific time.
ATTN: OIG HOTLINE Re: Fwd: Boys, please respond as soon as you can, sent at 8:05 PM Pacific time.
ATTN: OIG HOTLINE Re: Request for an Appeal, sent at 12:36 PM Pacific time.
ATTN: OIG HOTLINE Re: Fwd: Battling False Information, sent at 11:18 AM Pacific time.
ATTN: OIG HOTLINE Re: Birdie; Safeway, sent at 1:49 AM and 1:57 AM Pacific time.
ATTN: OIG HOTLINE Re: Who Controls the Past, sent at 1:07 AM Pacific time.