I know it makes the contact form a bit more difficult to use, but it’s unfortunately necessary because otherwise I’ll be inundated with spam.

That's my problem too. Way too much mail.

The difficulty is that half of it is spam, but the other half is real. Hard to disentangle.

Apologies to everyone who wrote to me in the last month -- I'm trying to catch up on responding to each email, but it's soooooo time-consuming! I just don't have enough hours in the day to answer (or even read) all my emails.

And I actually try to hide my address.