Welcome to your middle-aged rage.
Me, in Edinburgh at the Witchery, toasting you and all your ragey middle-ageness.
Middle aged? A little bit ragey? Feeling invisible? Then this is for you. Cheers.
As a member of this demographic, I welcome you. You, the men, women, and nonbinary oldsters who somewhere in their middle years slipped over the fence into cultural irrelevance, according to the almighty Algorithm. You, the target of uncounted ads for new drugs that will fix your oldness. You, the reader who has to make the type a little bigger every year, but SO WHAT? Behind your eyes lies more wisdom than those wafer-thin influencers can hope to achieve (until they are old too.)
THIS IS FOR YOU, the wise crone or the wizened wizard, or even a preternaturally wise maiden or young dude. I exclude no one who comes to the fold curious, a little pissed off, and wanting to find a kindred spirit.
Why in the name of all that is holy should you subscribe to another newsletter?
WHAT’S IN IT FOR YOU? Once a week I’ll be raging about travel, art experiences, middle aged jiggery pokery, heinous fuckery, or poignant moments with my pets. Sometimes current events if I can stand to talk about them.
I’ll also be doing a once weekly SPONTANEOUS STORY WEDNESDAY where you and I write a piece of fiction together. You can go back and read from the beginning or pick up where you left off. It’s like audience participation, choose-your-own-adventure stuff. The weirder the better.
I’d love to have a place where all the people who like my writing can get together and chat. You can subscribe for absolutely free, or you can choose to pay. You’ll get all the content either way.
This is me feeding a carrot to a Scottish cow named Hamish. If that’s his real name.
TO PAY FOR NOT TO PAY? Listen…this is all free for now. If you feel inspired to kick in some money by being a paid subscriber, I’m here for that, but I don’t want to exclude you just because you don’t want to pay.
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