Hi there - this week my wife had a procedure at the hospital, and this essay was a side effect. This week's essay is a bit longer than I normally go, but I didn't have time to write it shorter ¯\_(ツ)_/¯. As a reminder, I am now sending an original, unpublished essay each week as bonus content for my members. I hope you like it! - HH

The receptionist at the…

Hi y’all, 

I know I owe y’all a lot of personal updates, but I wanted to let you know about an upcoming additional perk you will get as a member of my patronage team: A free original weekly essay, sent out each Saturday morning. 

This will hopefully solve two problems for me: 

The first is that I need to write more, and if I don’t have a deadline as an incentive, it…

Hey y'all, 
Man, my life has been weird the last few weeks because of my day job. Actually, it's just been weird in general. But that's a story for another day. 

The reason I'm writing you right now is that in last month's Member's Only email, I said I was blocking an hour off tonight for a drop in Zoom call. I put it on my calendar and then, honestly, forgot about…

Hey y’all. 

In the closing words of one of my favorite novels, Gilead, the protagonist , on his deathbed, writes these words for his young son to read after his death:

That’s all I’ve ever wanted: To be useful. In fact, I…

Note: This is the Member's Only newsletter that you get monthly because you support my work as a part of my membership team. Thanks for that.  It's more behind the scenes, both business and personally. I sometimes say things in this format I wouldn't put on the open internet, so I would appreciate if you kept this one off the record. - HH

Hey y'all, 

It’s Monday morning, and I’m…

Hey there. I'm Hugh Hollowell, and this is the occasional newsletter I send folks who support my work as members, and thus pay recurring amounts of money to fund my projects. I'm so glad you are here! - HH
 
Hi y’all,

Well, it’s been a hell of a year so far. 

We went to North Carolina for New Years, where we tried to cram a pound of visits into a ¼…

Hey y'all.  

Over the last year, I became increasingly frustrated with my membership program, of which you are a member. Last year I couldn't find what I wanted when I decided to leave Patreon, and tried to roll my own. And it worked, and would have worked better had I not been an ADHD riddled chaos-muppet. 

But alas, I am. The new system just had too much friction, and so I…