Let the Pile-On Commence
Hello, Readers All, I finally did it. I published a story on Newsbreak that has all the fellas lining up with rotten tomatoes and mean comments. That took...
Hey, You're OK, Right?
Hi Readers All, It occurs to me that in all my navel-gazing and pondering my Purpose, I may have lost sight of how you’re doing. How TF ARE you doing,...
Because I Don't Know That I Can't
Hello, Readers All, How was your weekend? I guess there were a couple of holidays going on as well. My felicitations if you celebrate. I'm not of the...
Shoulders to Wheels and Other Nonsense
Hello, Readers All, Aside from the fulsome thanks that I include at the closing of each newsletter, I'm starting off with special thanks to those Readers who...
Swimming slowly
Hello, Readers All, After serious consideration and further conferring with trusted advisors, beta readers, and premium subscribers, the decision was made to...
There's Ups, There's Downs
Hello, Readers All, I’ve written and deleted three opening paragraphs this week. I give up. With no clever openings, here’s the work. <br /> Need More...
If it looks like spring...
Hello, Readers All, We ventured out into Central Park today because it was about damned time we got to see that famous fugitive Eurasian Eagle-Owl. If we had...
Hanging in There
Hello, Readers All, I knew you’d be glad to read that I’m hanging in there. Are you? I sure hope so! If not, cheer up, at least you don’t you’re not on...
So This Is The Long Haul, Huh?
Hello, Readers All, If you jumped aboard this feisty little newsletter when it launched, you've been sailing along mostly with the tide for three and a third...
A Day Early and This is Why
Hello, Readers All, So by tomorrow night - when I'd usually be sending this out - it will be obsolete. And this is why. <br /> I’m Going to March Against...
How Super Has this Sunday Been, Anyway?
The guys at the Riker's pre-release center behind where I live erupted into yelling and cheers several hours ago. Oh, right. Super Bowl Sunday, that uniquely...
Winter? What winter?
Hello, Readers All, If you're sick of shoveling and want a break, come to New York City. We had our first measurable snow of the year - less than half an...
Good News, Bad News, Good news
Hey there, Readers All, You may or may not have noticed that I've dropped back to three new stories weekly instead of four. I'm still writing four and five...
Hitting my Stride....Again
Hello, Readers All, I always forget that there's a slump in readership starting around the middle of November and lasting until, well, now. Will I remember...
One Step Forward...Two Steps Back
Hello, Readers All, Chickens. We should start this week with chickens. Walking up Amsterdam Avenue after picking up the latest iteration of "Graceless" which...
Gliding into the New?
Hello, Readers All, Some time back a Reader spanked me for what I'm about to do in the next couple of sentences. This Reader held that it was a form of...
New Year, New....Whatever
Hello, Readers All, Having successfully escaped 2022, it's clearly time to haul all the cliches out to scatter them all over the place. Resolutions? Stack...
Here's to a Very Merry....Sunday
Hey there, Readers All, If you celebrated The Big One, I hope it's been jolly. For those not of the tinsel and obligatory gift-giving persuasion, I hope it's...
Yes, Yes, I Know What Season It Is
Hello, Readers All, You'd have to live under a pile of rocks buried under three feet of lead not to know it's The Most Wonderful Time of the Year. If you...
Expanding My Wee Empire
Hello, Readers All, You may not have realized that you had gotten yourself mixed up in some flagrant empire-building when you signed up for this seemingly...
Where's my Juice?
Hello, Readers All, And straight up first thing must say: Thank you! Thank you to the premium subscribers who got back to me about the goodies (more on that...
One Hundred in One Hundred and Sixty One
Hello, Readers All, I wasn't counting (honest) but the handy dandy analytics tell me that over the course of the past 161 weeks I have only now arrived at...
For You, Three
Here are the final five of my month of drawing one new weird thing each day. One is for you. Your choice. Email me with your mailing address and then sit...
For You, Two
Like I said, there's MORE! Just to be on the safe side, let's put the last five in one more page. Ready?
For You
I wasn't necessarily just being cute by basically dangling the notion of "goodies" for premium subscribers. Ok, I was. But only a little. Back in late June,...
Microbes 1, Remington Write 0
Hello, hello Readers, All, My partner in life and art, AleXander, and I have officially joined the Covid club. Not only that, we are also exclusive members...
Just Dance, OK?
Hello, hello, Readers All, I can't promise to ditch the Doom And Gloom mood but, hell, we can still dance. Right? We can dance in ferocious circles, kicking...
It's Not Dark Yet But it Will Be
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And a Happy Samhain to You!
Hello, Readers All,
Better to get it out of our systems
Hey there, Readers All, Miss Pollyanna has gone on hiatus and you're stuck with me. I'm sure I'll think of light-hearted things to write again. Stick around...
Try me
Hey there, Readers All, It looks like eleven brave souls read something I sent along last week. YAYYYYYYYYYYY! And thank you! To the 31 who opened the email,...
How Thin is This Ice, Anyway?
Hello, Readers All, This business of shoving my fingers into my ears and loudly chanting LA LA LA LA LA LA LA LA LA isn't working as well as it used to....
What not to say and when not to say it
Hello, Readers All, I've been rightly accused of having an overly optimistic nature but that's getting tougher and tougher to maintain. And the darkness is...
Forty-six, twenty-six and NINETY-THREE!
Hello, Readers All, This online writing thing is totally about the numbers. While we're not in Influencer Territory, it has to be understood that we don't...
Thirty-Eight and Thirteen
Hello, Readers All, Thanks to the trusty analytics tool I check once a week, I see that 38 of you opened last week's cheater of a newsletter (no new stories)...
Cheating
Hello, Readers All, Yes, it's true. I'm cheating this week. While none of the included pieces this week have been included in previous Sunday grab-bags, none...
Happy! We're all HAPPY. Dammit.
Hello, Readers All, Welp, 35 of you tore yourselves away from the beach or the bar or the whatever to open and read stuff from last week's missive...
The Last Heat Wave (I hope)
Hello, Readers All, When the heat broke after that last little run of three north-of-ninety days I could feel the difference. That sun still can blast, but...
The HOT Two-Five and all the rest of yas
Hello, Readers All, First off, a big wet sloppy sentimental thank you to the twenty-five who opened and read last week's installment of whatever it is I'm...
Goodies for ALL!
Hello, Readers All, About six minutes ago I finished the Goodies. That would be the project that I leaked to premium subscribers several weeks ago. The...
Big Three-Ohhhhhhhhh!
Hello, Readers All, Damn, people, ya'll are TOO MUCH! Thirty of you opened what I sent out last week and it looks like several stories got read and...
Expertly playing The Glad Game
Hello, Readers All, When I saw that we're down to 18 of you reading something from last week's pile o'words (down from 25 the previous week), I pulled out my...
Rock on, you crazy 25 readers!
Hello, Readers All, And a secret wink and electronic fist bumps to the twenty-five subscribers who found something they liked here last week. Let's see if I...
Goodies
According to all the experts I am doing this newsletter thing totally wrong. You, as a premium subscriber (one hundred thousand thank you's, btw), should be...
Wave those flags, Patriots!
Hey there, Readers All, A special shout out to the Nineteen (you know who you are) who found something to read in last week's basket. Here's hoping I didn't...
Ignoring the experts
Hello, Readers All, Good week? Lousy week? Middle-of-the-tunnel-with-only-that-light-ahead-as-a-clue week? I'm there with ya. Speaking of clues, I had this...
Dodging the bots, keeping the faith
Hello Readers All, How did your week treat you? Me, I was all delighted to get a brand new subscriber to the ol' weekly ramble. Odd-looking email, but hey,...
It's definitely a rice pudding kinda night
Hey there, Readers All, First and best: Big rounds of applause and general all-around YOU-ARE-THE-BESTs for twenty-three of you who opened and read some of...
To the Ten
Hello, Readers All, This is a special heart-felt thank you to The Ten who I see read something from last week's collection. Yayyyyyyyy!!!! I'm never going to...
The Up of It and the Down of it
Hello, Readers All, The good news and the bad news about not being a niche-oriented writer is that you never know what you're gonna get. Mixed bag doesn't...