Plague Summertime Blues
Hello, Readers All, How's things in your part of the forest? Here it's too damned hot and I'm too damned cranky. Nothing new, but at a higher temperature....
No, I won't be taking my mask off, thanks
Hello, Readers All, I don’t know about your town but around New York City the vibe seems to be Hey, This is SO GREAT That The Pesky Tiresome Pandemic is...
How to Do a Pandemic in the Summer
Hello, Readers All, First off: the only way I know how to “do” anything during a pandemic is to wear the damned mask when I’m out, stay in as much as my...
Change is..........well, change
Hello, Readers All, When I totally spaced on getting the newsletter out last Tuesday night and then forgot it again the next day I decided, with a little...
Fireworks Season Gets an Early Start
Hello, Readers All, Pick your reason but we seem to having a LOT more street fireworks action this year than I can ever remember and it’s earlier. There’s a...
Dropping balls that don't matter anyway
Hello, Readers All, When I started this newsletter some thirty weeks ago it just happened that the first one went out late on a Tuesday night. Since then,...
Wait! There's MORE!
Hello, Readers All, So from our somewhat shaky but still quiet perch uptown, the Anomalous Duo* is riding out the latest here in NYC. We had a bit of a taste...
Ok, no, we're not tossing the masks anytime soon, thx
Hello, Reader’s All! Aren’t we all so glad that that nasty, inconvenient virus is over with? Now we can all crowd back to the beaches and the bars and the...
What do you mean, it's not Tuesday night?
Readers, All, Well, it finally happened. I missed sending the newsletter out on Tuesday night as scheduled and as I have managed to do for the 30 weeks since...
Of course I'm still at it. Aren't you?
Hello, Readers All, A first and most important shout-out to those beautiful and generous souls who heeded my request for help selecting which six of ten...
What day is it? Oh, right. Tuesday.
Hello Readers, All, Thanks again to my intrepid partner for reminding me that it’s Tuesday, aka Newsletter Day. We’re roughly at Week Nine of our city’s...
I need your input (re-sending because internet went down on first sending)
Readers, All, I know you’re confused. Not to worry, it’s not the middle of Tuesday night or anything. I need some input from people who’ve read my work. I’m...
I need your input and you get a book out of the deal
Readers, All, I know you're confused. Not to worry, it's not the middle of Tuesday night or anything. I need some input from people who've read my work. I'm...
Trudging the road of.......something
Readers, All, Hiyas and how ya doing? Hopefully we've all moved past our bouncing off the walls stage and are calmly contemplating the next round of, well,...
What day is it again?
Readers All, hello! So do you remember what day it is? I spaced completely until AleXander just looked over and said "Newsletter?". Oh, right. It's Tuesday....
Are your walls closing in?
Readers, All, How are you holding up? Tired of it all? Oh, yes, indeed. I’ll still take a quick look at the news when I get up, but that’s all I can take....
Here we are.........still
Readers All, Hello! Look! Here you are still at home and so are we. Go figure. The 800 pound gorilla in all writers’ psyches refuses to budge so I guess,...
One Note, Played Over and Over and OVER!
Dear Readers, All, What the hell else is there to talk about, read about, obsess about? With 3 billion people stuck in their apartments (and we’re the lucky...
Our new normal that changes every twenty minutes
Dear Readers All, Don’t get comfortable (assuming that anyone is). Whatever state your world is in at this moment, it’s very likely to be something different...
Well hasn't THIS been a week?
Oh my Readers All, I sure hope all is at least semi-ok in your part of the forest. What the HELL is going on? A month ago I was chatting with a friend in...
Are we allowed to have spring without winter?
Hello, Readers All, We're seeing daffodils and crocuses here in New York and, of course, our favorite: changing the clocks. So I guess that means it's...
More subscribers, more fun!
Hello, Readers All, When you look in the Urban Dictionary under the heading of Slow But Steady you will find my photo and it's not my most flattering. This...
You call this winter?
Greetings, Readers All, We’re having one weirdly balmy February in NYC and, much as I’m not a fan of biting cold weather, I miss having winter. I suspect I’m...
Hitting some kind of stride...I think
Greetings, Readers All, With nearly 50 subscribers and now hitting north of 20 people opening the email and clicking on some of the stories, I'm about to get...
Big fat body o'work stacking up
Greetings, Readers All, Big news: 26 readers clicked on stories last week after I cheerfully whined about only one reader clicking the week before. I may be...
45 subscribers, maybe 8 open the email and 1 reads something. I'm a success!
Hello Readers-who-opened-the-email, I love you. I thought about ranting about my piss-poor showing on this weekly newsletter endeavor and then I realized...
Getting by and getting on
Readers All, How are things in your part of the forest these days? We’re slowly adjusting to our life of leisure knowing there are far worse things than...
On left-handed mousing and WRITING dammit
Good morning, Readers All, According to the handy, dandy analytics on Buttondown, I see that all 40 newsletters were successfully delivered last week, 25...
Settling in, shoving forward
Good morning, Readers All, Hitting about 15 weeks unemployed I’ve settled into my new “work” routine. I’d like to report I’m out of bed at o’dark thirty,...
Now we get to just have winter!
Hello, hello Readers One and All, Have we all got all that tinsel and sugar out of the way? Are your sidewalks piled up with dead fir trees that some genius...
The End is Here!
Hello Readers, one and all, And welcome new subscribers! We’re up to 40 subscribers and that’s pretty damned wonderful. If you opened this newsletter and are...
It's..........Wednesday!
Hello Readers, I’m sending out the newsletter on the usual day with the usual links to some new and some older work even though to most people receiving it,...
Still Unemployed and still very ok with that (mostly)
Hello One and All and a special welcome to our new subscribers. Make yourselves comfortable. Another week has flown and that Great Job, the one where I’d...
Growing an audience; nothing to it!
Hello and welcome to the newest subscribers, We’re up to 34 subscribers and it’s kind of wonderful that some of the new readers didn’t sign up because I...
A Bold Proposal
First a huge thank you for subscribing to Remington Write, my weekly newsletter. We’re up to 27 “real” subscribers and one bot who got shown the door. Until...
Surfing change (Corrected!)
Hello and welcome to the new faces in the room; we're up to 25 subscribers! We started October with Medium's new way of calculating payments (reading time vs...
Surfing change
Hello and welcome to the new faces in the room; we're up to 25 subscribers! We started October with Medium's new way of calculating payments (reading time vs...
Don't Get Me Started!
Welcome to my second newsletter and thanks to new subscribers! We're up to 19 subscribers and that's pretty happy-making. This week I'm looking at ranting....
Late to the party, but what else is new?
Welcome to my teensy weensy newsletter. I'm a digital immigrant who speaks social media with an accent, but am determined to get my work out there...