Hi, every­one.

Had a lot of side gigs last week. I was pet sit­ting, help­ing some­one who had stuff in their house going back to 1965 to dig out, pack, and load in a trail­er so they could move, AND babysit­ting. I even did a shift at a bak­ery that stocks events like Dick­ens Faire and Ren Faire with scones, short­bread, and rum cakes. A lot of days involved run­ning back and forth to more than a cou­ple of these while still doing my per­son­al train­ing ses­sions, and try­ing to get in some writ­ing. I was­n’t just dou­ble dip­ping here, I was like… (~counts on fingers~)…uh… quadru­ple dip­ping?

I made some good mon­ey, but folks… I am TIRED. I slept like 16 hours yes­ter­day, and I need some qual­i­ty time star­ing at a show I’m not real­ly watch­ing.

Which is just to say that I’m a lit­tle behind on post­ing, and I know it. But the first thing I need to do is write some newslet­ters to my Patre­ons. They are the ones help­ing me keep my rent paid and keep the lights on around here. And if I’m ever going to be able to say no to side gigs or yet anoth­er per­son­al train­ing client, it’s going to be because my Patrons make it pos­si­ble.

How­ev­er, it’s not too late to see this mon­th’s newslet­ter or get in on any oth­er reward tiers you might want. And it’s nev­er too late to start help­ing out by sup­port­ing your local cute author in their efforts to pro­vide almost every word they write to the world for free. As we move into tumul­tuous times eco­nom­i­cal­ly, and I begin to shift the very essence of what my career is going to look like, mov­ing for­ward, there could­n’t be a bet­ter time to become a sup­port­er.

Almost every­thing I write is avail­able to the pub­lic. All the arti­cles about my prac­tice being a priest of The Mor­ri­g­an, about writ­ing, about social jus­tice, about my goings on, and—coming soon—about fit­ness. The clos­est thing I have to exclu­sive con­tent is some Patre­on tiers that are my small way of say­ing thank you to folks who keep me flush in One is a month­ly newslet­ter with some behind-the-scenes updates. The oth­er is a quar­ter­ly newslet­ter I write with a more per­son­al slant about my feel­ings and life updates. It looks a lit­tle fur­ther to the ambi­tions of the future and does a bit more fee-fees-cal­iber unpack­ing of the past. Oth­er than that though, every­thing is and will always be free. You may see a com­pi­la­tion or a book for­mat of some of my future writ­ing, but you can always get it here on the blog for no cost.

But I have to sur­vive cap­i­tal­ism like every­one else. And if I can’t make ends meet by writ­ing, I have to go help peo­ple move and babysit their kids and pets and take on more per­son­al train­ing clients.

So if you like what I do here, and wish to see me keep doing it, please con­sid­er a small con­tri­bu­tion to the cause. An almost insignif­i­cant month­ly dona­tion ($3) will get you that first newslet­ter and help me keep pro­duc­ing the con­tent you find valu­able and get a kick out of.