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Hey y'all,
Three four quick things: 
  1. I'm making a page with the archives for Life Is So Beautiful on it as an exclusive benefit for y'all. I can pretty reliably…

A place to tinker

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Hi all! I hope this note finds you as well as it can during this horrible time in the life of our country. I don't have more to say than…

New Year, New Stuff (big update!)

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NB: I have a lot of things to announce on Monday to the public, and as always, you guys get first dibs. 

I'm announcing the existence of my new company…

What was, and what is to come.

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Hi friends. 

I love this week of the year, between Christmas and New Year. The pace is slow, the routine is demolished, and nobody expects very much from you. It's…

Solstice

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Happy Solstice, friends. I am so grateful for you that I have  hard time expressing it.  - HH

As I write this, it's a few days before the winter solstice…

Welp

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Hi all.
I don't have anything ready to share this morning. We're in Bryant Arkansas this weekend for my sister-in-law's memorial service.

I did have most of a piece…

Cold, wet, and gray.

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Hey all!

A couple of updates before the essay:

My self-publishing struggles continue apace. The good news is it is now for sale on Amazon as both a physical paperback

Here is your free PDF download of Food Is Love (and what to expect next)

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Last night, I uploaded the cover and manuscript for Food Is Love to Amazon's publishing arm. If all goes well (fingers crossed) it should be available for purchase by the…

The last chapter of Food is Love.

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Hey all!

The manuscript for Food is Love, my food based memoir, topped off right at 50,000 words, or a 200 page finished book, more or less. I've been…

Making Jelly (and a short update)

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Hey y'all!

This is a rewrite of the muscadine piece from late August, with the addition of the formal recipe for jelly. This is the version going into the book.

I'm 53, and don't know what to do.

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NB: Because most of my creative energy is being spent on revising this book I'm hoping to have out in time for the holidays, it's becoming harder and harder to…

A new micro-project

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Hey friends.

You might have noticed the lack of an essay this weekend - I'm sorry about that. I don't delude myself that any of you are sitting there, tapping…

Here we go again

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Happy Saturday!

My goal is to make the last Saturday of the month an update post - sort of a "this is an overview of where my head is" -…

No essay this week due to extroversion

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Hi friends, 

I'm currently in Akron, Pennsylvania for a church-related meeting, and I have been extroverting hard for two days. I had free time this afternoon where I intended to…

Cat Essay part 2- The Kitten Room

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NB: This is the first draft of the second part of a five-part essay I'm writing for a creative nonfiction class you guys paid for me to take. You can…

In which I solicit advice from my membership team

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Hey y'all!

As people who support, both economically and emotionally, my work, I'd like your opinion on what is, fundamentally, a business decision.

Before I ask, a thing to keep…

The cat essay - part 1

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I'm taking another class (which you guys paid for - thank you!) on creative nonfiction writing, and an assignment is to write a longish essay in five sections. I'll be…

How are you doing?

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During the height of the pandemic, I would start letters occasionally with the question, "How are you doing?"

And then I would follow it with, "Really, I mean it. How…

Waiting

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They were retired farmers, but now lived in a small house on 3 acres we had sold them for $300. According to my grandmother, the best deal she ever made…