Why I'm here

Mostly it is to stay in touch with you.

Welcome, and thanks for signing up! I have never been all that great at keeping up with email and generally have shared what I have to say through my journalism and on Twitter. While I still use social media, I mostly do it to share my work or to offer brief observations about current events. I used to be an active Twitter combatant, but the toxicity got so intense, I decided to step back from all that.

I’m creating this list so that I can stay in touch with people interested in my work or perspectives. Part of my motivation for doing this is that the social media spaces on which we congregate are often controlled by people or entities that I don’t particularly like or trust.

I see this as an insurance policy of sorts that will allow me to stay connected with you even if a specific site becomes even more horrid or shuts down completely. Depending on how things go in the world of media and with my work, I may use this site frequently. For now, it’s a way to keep my connection with the people I am connected with, or have met, on other platforms.

You’ll start receiving new posts right here in your inbox. Once I start posting newsletters, you can also log into the website to read the full archives or access a clean, ad-free reading experience in the Substack app.