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I have a lot to do today, and I'm not in the best place mentally, so I'm taking the day off from creative writing. But I do have…

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I had coffee with a dear friend the other day that I hadn't seen in a few months, and as I sat down, she said, "You look great!"…

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Last night, I went to the Shabbat service at Beth Israel Synagogue. This is notable for several reasons: One being I am not Jewish, and the second being…

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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…

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…

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" -…

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…

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It’s August, and hotter than Satan’s armpit outside today, so I’m taking advantage of the air conditioning to bring y’all up to date on what’s going on in…

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It’s the 4th of July as I’m writing this. My neighborhood is having a thing later this morning (I love that I live in a neighborhood where we…

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I’m taking advantage of a rainy day that canceled all my plans to write you a long-overdue update. 

In one way, it’s fitting that today is full of…

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In my hardrive are six drafts that I tried to write for today’s essay, but nothing clicked. My brain is occupied with lots of things ranging from political to economic to family matters, and it just can’t light on one thing, as my people are known to say. So, I think I’m just going to write you a letter instead. We’re past due for one anyway.

I’m doing well, all…

NB: This is NOT the essay I promised you every Saturday morning. But the election and it's aftermath has disrupted my life and productivity, and I owe you a newsletter, and it was much easier to write, so I did that. We will return to regular programing next week. - HH

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I do not pretend to know the partisan affiliations of those who read my work. In fact, since…

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 off the record. - HH


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First, some admin: There will be…

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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…

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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

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It’s Monday morning, and I’m…