I’ve been thinking about blogs lately because I miss them. I am very attached to things that fade into obsolescence. For years, I wrote an obscure little blog few people read and that was mostly fine because I could share my thoughts with myself and a handful of other people.
Though I didn’t realize it at the time, I was also growing as a writer, thinking more about how to tell a story, and how to get readers to care about the story.
But I was also an avid blog reader. Every day I looked forward to opening my inbox and reading about the lives of complete strangers who seemed so compelling. A mother in Utah, a designer in the Bay Area, a foster parent in NYC, a baker in St. Louis, a budding filmmaker in Los Angeles. It didn’t matter how different the bloggers were. What mattered was how they made me want to understand the world from their perspective.
People curate what they put from their lives into the public sphere but a good writer makes what they curate one hell of a story. That’s what I hope to do with this newsletter—tell one hell of a story about the world we’re living in, the culture we consume, the things that bring me joy, the things that infuriate me, the things I think we should talk about.
This once obscure little blog has now grown into a platform of over ten thousand readers every month. Ten thousand. That’s so much more than I ever dared to imagine...
I’ve also used this space a little bit to showcase the work of others. Since January 2024, I shared a monthly portrait of visual artist and painter Neel Korteweg. In mid-2025, I expanded this by publishing an essay by an emerging writer (someone with three or fewer publications) and sharing a short interview with them about their work, who they are, who they hope to become. Yes, they will be paid a good and fair wage for their work.
And I’m now hosting book club, where we read books by underrepresented writers, talk about those books, and, when we’re lucky, talk to the writers of those books.
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Here is a list of the last 3 personal letters I’ve sent:
- How Beauty Has Always Kept Women Occupied
- Big Curly Hair, Hips, And Belly Dancing
- The Cause I Can’t Ignore
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