I wish I had the envelopes I scrawled the lyrics to Ignoreland on back when … hitting Replay about 50 times with a new friend one awesome twentysomething Saturday .. I’m sure we misheard many, lol … but we felt great doing it.

Wishing Charles the best! Some encouragement: We recently had almost all of our cat’s teeth removed for the same issue — and she feels so much better. (She also has a murmur! I wonder if these things go together?)

Eh, life keeps cattle-prodding me along (thank you, Life! 🙂). How have you been, Matthew? How are the kitties?

At this point (and hi btw! :), I’m just following along so I can understand the satire.

I am slowly reading this book too. My cousin recommended it based on the rec from another of our cousins.

Yikes, I hope you heal up without too much trouble … surprise surgery is not an awesome surprise. :(

Well I feel seen …

Well, I’m a fan — really appreciate that you do the work you do. You are an energetic+ presence!

I like the way you organize your Substack into sections. You provide helpful and entertaining discussions for writers and readers alike.

I would be wise to introduce passive income into my business, but I haven’t had (or made!) time to kick anything off.

I haven’t needed to build an audience (or client base) via social. I do watch for dubious TOS/privacy changes and trends in algorithm/feature updates. Relying on any platform exclusively, as some do with Substack, for income is a bold choice. I … am not a bold person. 😂

How do you feel about Substack? I figure any growing pains are understandable, and at least for the moment, the folks who run the service seem to prioritize creators. Also reassuring that they allow creators to export content to another service (assuming this is still true?).

Well, yikes for her then! I hope she escaped unscathed. I didn’t even know ticks had nests! Egad…