Some changes around here

and thank you

I’ve been writing this newsletter for five years, and I am delighted that every month people open it. Thank you for being here. I am very lucky.

Things will be changing moving forward. The newsletter will now be weekly. It will still include poetry, updates on plants, and tiny stories from my family, but I will also be writing about books and articles, conducting interviews, and doing Q&As. There will also be some audio posts (aka podcasts).

Money: Over the years, many of you have pledged to support this newsletter financially, and I have not turned on payments, but these pledges have meant so much to me. I keep the notification in my inbox for weeks, reminding myself that people value my work. Thank you!

I will turn on the payments this week, but there will be no paywall. Pay if you’d like.

As for the Q&A posts: send your question! You can reply to this newsletter, email me at slicejessica [at] gmail [dot] com, or fill out the contact form on my website. Questions can be advice, opinions, or even help picking out a sweater.

The newsletter has a new title: Whatever What Is, which is a line from one of my favorite poems by Galway Kinnell, called, fittingly, prayer.

Whatever happens. Whatever
what is is is what
I want. Only that. But that.

It’s a poem that reminds me of what I want to do with my writing: tell the complicated truth, even when it takes more work or makes less sense.

I’ll be back next week, writing about bodies and suffering.

Grateful for you.