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Fed is best | Weeknotes 5/6/23

I’ve been really swamped at my day job for the last few months, and, surprise, my routines have suffered. But a huge project I was working on just ended, and things should revert to something like normal. But the end…

Friction | Weeknotes – 3/31/2023

(This is a weeknote: a weekly update of the behind-the-scenes work and thinking that goes into being an independent web publisher. You can read past weeknotes here) In Consistency is Easier Than You Think, CJ Chilvers writes about how consistency…

Fewer, Better Things

I took a month off of writing. I don’t know that I’m really ready to start back, but taking time off always scares me somewhat – I am always afraid that if I don’t start back, the words will quit…

One Year

A year ago today, I bought the domain name for this website, Humidity And Hope. Yesterday was the 9th anniversary of that time I was threatened with arrest for feeding hungry people. Those are not entirely unrelated facts. In the…

The Whole Story

Some years back, my wife and I were in the grocery store. It was our regular grocery store, and we were just going down the aisle, discussing groceries and putting things in the cart. The store was busy, but not…

The Hughniverse

Let me tell you the backstory behind this post. A few months back, I was holding office hours for people on the membership team. I mentioned the wide-ranging projects I am working on that they are supporting, and I jokingly…

Membership Month

Sunday, June 5th, is my birthday. I will be 50 years old. Yes, I know, I seem young and sprightly, but trust me, that is just the Tylenol talking. In any event, the last year has been my most creative…

The Notebook

There are some authors who were made for audiobooks. They are more spoken word artists than true writers. Rick Bragg is one of them. Another is David Sedaris. Like many people, my introduction to Sedaris was through This American Life,…

On Branding

People who know me well know how much I love Jacques Pepin. If you do not know, he is a classically trained French chef, who began his apprenticeship in France at the age of 13, who worked in Paris and…