Hey, hi! How ARE you? I’m hanging in here but I’ve missed you. Work is especially busy and I don’t really like all the too busyness that life is throwing my way but I’m muddling through and feeling really good. I want to write here more - at least twice a month and hopefully more - but I wanted to recalibrate my intentions for this Substack and share them with you real quick.
I work in the television industry and as you know, we couldn't work because of the strikes for 5 months. I cancelled most of my subscriptions (goodbye Washington Post, farewell Netflix and friends) but I have kept you because I feel exactly the same way. I'm glad that should I not be able to afford a month I'll still be able to read you, but i'm a firm believer in supporting people not corporations.
I'm forever pissed at people who enjoy bargaining when traveling to 3rd world countries but drop loads in European capitals without a care in the world.
Like others I support on Substack or Patreon, it's because I really connect with the writing or the music and know that, in order to keep it going, I feel I need to do my part. I'll continue subscribing unless that changes, which I imagine it won't. I missed your writing so much when you shut down your blog years ago and was grateful that I found you again. Thank you for continuing to write things that really dig deep and connect with people.
I started reading your blog way back at the beginning when I was a step mom and trying to navigate sudden parenthood and then through my divorce when I became a non-parent again. I’ve always enjoyed how you write about the world and life and loss. Thanks for sharing your words with us!
Hey Monica! You should write a book. I would so read that autobiography. Have you ever considered it?
I work in the television industry and as you know, we couldn't work because of the strikes for 5 months. I cancelled most of my subscriptions (goodbye Washington Post, farewell Netflix and friends) but I have kept you because I feel exactly the same way. I'm glad that should I not be able to afford a month I'll still be able to read you, but i'm a firm believer in supporting people not corporations.
I'm forever pissed at people who enjoy bargaining when traveling to 3rd world countries but drop loads in European capitals without a care in the world.
Hope everyone can keep paying.
Like others I support on Substack or Patreon, it's because I really connect with the writing or the music and know that, in order to keep it going, I feel I need to do my part. I'll continue subscribing unless that changes, which I imagine it won't. I missed your writing so much when you shut down your blog years ago and was grateful that I found you again. Thank you for continuing to write things that really dig deep and connect with people.
When DID you start your blog? My goodness, just remembering I found you via Stephanie Klein!!! I'm always so happy to read what you write.
I started reading your blog way back at the beginning when I was a step mom and trying to navigate sudden parenthood and then through my divorce when I became a non-parent again. I’ve always enjoyed how you write about the world and life and loss. Thanks for sharing your words with us!