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...
How Hot Do You Like It? <wink, wink>
Hello, Readers All, I just took a gander at the list of all of you who opened and read stories from last week. Whoaaaa! I tend to put this little package...
The Silly and the Not-so-Silly
Hello, Readers All, Against all the odds, here you are again. And here I am again. Another week of new work and you here to read it. Damn! That's amazing and...
How Lucky Are We Feeling?
Hello, Readers All, At least two of our neighbors here in Chez Frontenac have Covid. How are your neighbors? At this point, it feels pretty inevitable but I...
Let's keep walking....because what else can we do?
Hello, Readers All, Are you hanging in there? Are you wondering what's really going on in the world around us? Unless your third cousin twice removed is a...
Your support is incredibly important - thank you!
Well, look at me, missing my Sunday newsletter. I know. I know. I'd love to lie and tell you I wrote these just for you. But they're part of my slow...
All in step now, dammit!
Hello, Readers All, What to say? Things have not improved since last week (did we really think they would?). Numbers of infections are rising and so is the...
The Fridge Stays Put
Hello, Readers All, Maybe you're more well-balanced than I am. In fact, it's a good possibility that you are. If so, rock right on with whatever's working...
Sunshine and lollipops
Hello, Readers All, Ok, right. The sunshine and lollipops line is hopeful but probably just a pile of hooey. So be it. How was your weekend? Ours was the Big...
How to keep walking
Hello, Readers All, Are you ok? Maybe - like me - you think you're basically ok. Maybe we are. But it feels like there's a rumbling under the surface that...
Let's Pretend
Hello, Readers All, And a special hello to the ten readers who found something to read here last week. Go me! In our current world of hurt, it can be tricky...
What season is it anyway?
Hello, Readers All, I hope you're holding up ok in our mad world. We barely are able to process one shit show when the next hits. Are you all right? You may...
All War, All The Time
Hello, Readers All, It's pretty impossible to talk or hear anything that's doesn't start with the letter "U" or "R" or both. Usually both. It's also tricky...
A room filled with elephants
Hello, Readers All, So how are we going to even open our mouths without talking about war? Hmmm? Ok, I give up. <br /> The Dummies’ Guide to Geopolitics | by...
Horse Latitudes
Hello, Readers All, I've got the sails up but there doesn't seem to be much wind (with a sincere thank you to the ten of you who read something from last...
Ok, Let's Not Hibernate After All
Hello, Readers All, I guess I'm over my little tantrum and have decided that experiencing winter isn't so bad after all (see last week's iteration for any...
Dead o'winter
Hello, Readers All, How have we not yet perfected hibernation? If bears and rabbits and turtles can do it, what's keeping us awake throughout these...
One Hundred and Nineteen Weeks of........something. Right?
Hello, Readers All, Here you are again. It's blowing my mind that again this week you opened the email and are clicking on stories to read. Damn! Let's see...
Saying goodbye always hurts
Hello, Readers All, The unwelcome day arrived this week. The week my ancient, somewhat senile old street-rescue tabby cat was done. 17 years put her...
Hawks and doves and bubbles, oh my!
Hello, Readers All, Another no-pants day for me. Between the elevator being out of order AGAIN and this day starting out at 11F degrees, yeah no. I did get...
Wrapping up another swing around this minor star
Hello, Readers All, I don't know about you, but I always feel as if we really should only have about a week of winter after the whole holiday shebang has...
Do We Have to Ring in the New?
Hello, Readers All, Maybe you're different but I'm just happy to be done with this most recent holiday season. And, no, I'm not ringing in any new anything....
Is it safe to come out? No?
Hello, Readers All, So the infection numbers are trending up again and the elevator was out over the weekend, so safe or not (not), we didn't set foot out of...
Are you jolly yet? If not....why not?!
Hello, Readers All, Don't mind me. I'm not jolly but if that's your bag, go for it. Tinsel it up and have a great time. Well, if you can. Looks like our...
Who has it worst?
NOT ME! Oh, hello, Readers All, The Season is amping up big time and the infernal soundtrack is in every store, restaurant, and on every street corner. Maybe...
Darker and darker
Hello, Readers All, When I'm feeling low because the sun is setting at 4:28pm I remember that in Akureyri, Iceland it's rising at 11:00am and setting before...
Is it me? It's me, isn't it? You can tell me.
Hello, Readers All, Once I'd gone and gotten myself hired to a regular - albeit part-time remote - job I worried that my writing would suffer. Given that...
Adjusting...more or less
Hello, Readers All, So it's Sunday night which didn't mean much of anything for a couple of years. Suddenly Sunday is back to being the day before Monday....
Friend links and other mysteries
Hello, Readers All, Since no one tugged my sleeve about any friend links not working I'll stop worrying my pretty little head about it. Easy peasy....
Who can say?
Hello, Readers All, My partner got his 3rd vaccine this past week and I - being so young and healthy - got the half-dose booster shot. Am I now feeling...
Scared yet?
Hello, Readers All, My partner and I just got back uptown from attending the Halloween Parade which was not canceled this year. Maybe it's early in the...
Good enough is good enough!
Hello, Readers All, Thanks to the responders to last week's question. Still don't have an answer from the man behind the curtain here at Buttondown, but it's...
I Have A Question
Hello, Readers All, It's not a rhetorical question or even some clever prompt to provide me with a story to tell (although that's a great idea!). My question...
Nearing the end of this line
Hello, Readers All, After over one hundred successful newsletters sent out via Buttondown, I fear it's time to jump ship. Last week a reader attempted to...
The Vacation Ends
Hello, Readers All, You can't really call this past two years a vacation, but it has had vacation-like elements. Or did before our friend, the virus, showed...
Groovin'
Hello, Readers All, How's things in your part of the forest? Mostly the usual here. I do have a job interview in the morning with the IEEE. Part-time,...
Widening and narrowing
Hello, Readers All, As we adjust to life sans unemployment benefits, I find it’s doing curious things. In some ways, it’s widening (I can finally apply for...
One Hundred Weeks and Counting!
Hello, Readers All, Some of you have been reading along (at least I hope you have) for one hundred weeks now. Bored yet? Sick of the same old slog? Too bad....
There's always a workaround
Hello, Readers All, So some new features on Buttondown were a bit glitchy, so I'm going to see how I can work around that. Ah, but I see that at least some...
Oh, let's go there!
Hello, Readers All! Ok, so we got everything west of the Mississippi burning to the ground and everything east of it flooding. Time to go off the deep end....
Fridge is securely against the door
Hello, Readers All, Our trip was really wonderful but enough is enough. We were both reminded of travel crap so it's a good thing we won't be moving the...
No, really. I'm gone!
Hello, Readers All, It sound like me and the stories are definitely written by me. AleXander has even contributed to this ghostly missive sent from my phone...
Before I go...
Hello, Readers All, I must being going! Not to worry. It's only for a week and as my partner in art and life has already figured out - clever AleXander! - I...
May as well celebrate
Hello, Readers All, Here we are on the cusp of what may or may not be another death round from our friend, the virus, and what should we do? I say let’s...
Why, yes. Yes I am still masking. Aren't you?
Hello, Readers All, Right off the bat, a wee bit of administrative catching up. Some subscribers recently told me that they didn't realize they had the...
Midsummer's Eve Crapshoot
Hello, Readers All, I genuinely hope summer is being kind to you wherever you are because she’s being one serious fiend in too many places. Sez I. To...
I didn't forget, I just remembered late
Hello, Readers All, In case anyone was checking their watch to see what had happened to my like-clockwork Sunday night missive....you can relax now. It's...
Glorious? Meh.
Hello, Readers All, I'm guessing that due to the drought and successive insane heat waves out in the western part of the U.S., the whole fireworks thing...