It Was Gonna Be May's Newsletter
“Do you like guacamole?” I had no idea what was being asked of me. I was in first grade, and the person asking was a classmate named Tara, whose birthday...
Let's look back
Hey, wow, what a strange April. The strangest April ever? I spent a lot of afternoons in middle school at the public library. Classes ended at 2:45. Then...
Interesting and Challenging Is Right
Hi. In my last newsletter, I wrote “[the] next few weeks will be interesting and challenging.” Uh. Yes. I've mentally started this issue(is that the word?) a...
Some light content, some thoughtful content
Oh, Mid-March readers, hello. On Leap Day, I attended a concert with my friend Rob. The concert was plainly advertised as a five-hour affair, the marathon...
Wild Wild Newsletter
Sweet readers, The past few weeks have reminded me of some writing projects I used to undertake that, one way or another, I no longer do. For a period in...
Saturday Night's Alright for Writing
Happy new year! The first music video I remember seeing was Tom Cochrane's "Life is a Highway" in the summer of '92 with Counselor Joe, one of the most...
Faster than a cup of coffee
Year-End Givers And Takers, Over Thanksgiving weekend, I had a chance to catch up with my friend Greg who runs a travel company ViaHero. Through his work and...
The Great Neilish Newslettering Show
Former Daylight-savers, I apologize for the typo in the opening sentence of my previous newsletter. I endeavor to avoid such errors in the future. This month...
The September Issue
Consumers of content, Let's just agree that I send my newsletters a few months into a new month. Consider it a clever move so that I can include whatever was...
Oops!... I Did It* Again * - Sent a newsletter late
Twenty-three years ago last month, I started trading Grateful Dead concert tapes on USENET's rec.music.gdead. What seemed like it might be a weeklong...
Cheese plates and retreats
The summer has felt a bit of a whirlwind of opportunities, new professional connections, and trying to follow through on some previously laid plans at work...
Do I Capitalize This Like A Title or like a sentence?
Some weeks back, writer Nicole Cliffe started one of her signature open question Twitter threads. What's the kindest thing a stranger has ever done for you?...
Sneaking This One In Before May Ends
Howdy, howdy, howdy, It's time for me to jam on my keyboard for a while and think about what I'm doing with my life! I don't have a lot up top here, partly...
Life is just a pile of paperwork jammed between restaurant visits
This week, we all learned something together. Maybe you didn't notice, but I sure did. What we learned is that I can't get a newsletter out every calendar...
Spring means herbs and spring means bounce
Making Time Per my last email, February can be hard, and let's be honest, March can be hard too. Luckily this month I had an "Equinox Partyluck" to look...
Short newsletters for short months for short people
Among a particular set of my college friends, February was known as "The Month of Sin & Degradation." This belief/tradition started before I got there, and...
Wherein you find out what I write in my newsletters
Friends, It seems it's pleasantly come to this. I've been writing online in some way since 1997 or so, and we're right back at the beginning?! Sure, I've...