🌊 Just testing the waters.

After five years of writing essays on another platform, I am thinking about shifting the whole kit n caboodle over here to Substack.

There’s a month left on my old lease, so I’m over here doing a test post to see how it feels. I haven’t yet bought the boxes and packing tape, but I am measuring the rooms and researching the nearest dry cleaner.

Um, now what?

So far it feels pretty okay.

Now, normally I write my essays in Scrivener on my laptop at my desk — but I’m currently on my phone, in bed, with Twiglet resting on my elbow.

So maybe I’m ushering in a new, more casual approach to newslettering.

Substack does invite that, what with its Notes feature and its app and the ability to write something without having to necessarily email every essay out to zillions of subscribers but rather just quietly post it here. It reminds me of my old blogging days, going back to the turn of the century when I would just publish to Wordpress as if no one would actually know about it at all.

Sure, next week I'll import a .csv with the list of my thousands of subscribers from Kit and recommence rattling all those distant email boxes with my thoughts and cry for attention.

But right now I’m just sitting in a virtual room smelling of fresh paint and eating a virtual pizza out of the box on the virtual floor and thinking about a new beginning at a new school in a new town, same old me with but with a new haircut and shoes.

“If you do not change direction, you might end up where you are heading.” – Lao Tzu