A Small Change Around Here

I’ve decided to push this week’s essay because I want to tell you something first.

I’ve decided to push this week’s essay because I want to tell you something first: I’m testing a small change around here.

What’s changing

I’ll still be emailing you weekly, but I won’t be sending the full essay directly. Instead, subscribers will get something more personal—a note from me, with more behind the scenes of the writing process, craft notes, and a link to read the actual piece on Substack.

All you have to do is click the link to read.

Why is this changing?

I want Ashes & Alchemy to feel like a small town, not a billboard. Like a handwritten note slipped into a mailbox instead of a rolled-up newspaper hurled out the window of a moving car.

I want there to be more room for process. For the human behind the work. For the kind of connection that doesn’t fit neatly into a polished essay dropped into your inbox and disappearing into the scroll.

So that’s what I’m trying.

You’ll still get the writing. You’ll just get a little more of me around it too.

Thanks for being here while I build this into what it’s becoming.