Why Catch Your Breath?
This is an unfolding memoir.
I write every weekday.
“Catching Breaths” starting by writing EVERYDAY per week for a year. Even though I can’t sit up as often any more due to spine, I write the majority via thumbs, and pull out the pain-stops for my Deaf Girl music column or longer content woven within.
My focus is transparent essays housed here forever… but after a year of special gifts like weekly boss-babe interviews, Deaf girl music columns, non-inspiration-po film reviews, and so stinking much more sprinkled throughout =
I began to focus on equity. (My favorite thing)
That’s a terrible business model, I know.
No one wands to give to something without something special in return. But…
Instead of focusing heavily on subscribers getting special posts and others not-
After a year of intensive, daily chronicling of chronic life, I realized I cared the most about… giving.
So if you give by becoming a subscribing Word Nerd at any price, I keep an open door UNLIMITED scholarship policy for anyone who wants one.
They just shoot me a quick DM… a sentence… an ask: And Word Nerds help make that type of giving focused “biz model” possible
I do not look at this as a newsletter, but rather: an evolving confession of essays to leave a breadcrumbs of legacy for my loved ones one day (including you!)
For the most part, everything I write is longer here, incut, unfiltered, and often weeks ahead of anything on social media.
I REALLY want to earn your trust, time and friendship.
Your support of my work helps me not only… well, work… but also feel a sense of agency despite such frequent surgeries and pain, a feeling of connection, and be able to provide as many free posts for those who want access as possible.
The dying art of writing about art and dying in today’s day and age.
Although I’ve been writing constantly for decades for free… I am fighting hard within myself to teach myself that my work matters, and that we can be generous with our time AND (occasionally) also show ourselves as women that we are not expendable.
I know that $5 a month matters and should not be taken lightly: I will hustle every weekday with gratitude and honesty in my heart…
To those who give, I thank you from the bottom of my verbose, bionic little heart.
Want to know more? Go to the WHY page and see a video where I blab about the who, what, where, when and whatever-else and see what you think.
I hope it’s helpful and we become friends who connect and share!
What Do You Get Though?
Unfiltered content on chronic illness, creative catapults and cynical silver linings…
No spam, no ads; zero product pushes, brand deals or affiliates.
Expect a post nearly every weekday! (Gotta hustle hustle hustle to reward the readers of the world)
What If I Can’t Support?
If you’re like me and do not have $5 to spare month to month, sharing someone’s hard work really DOES help.
If I can fight to stop underestimating my own worth, I can fight to show YOU the power in simply saying, “Hey, I really dig this broad’s moody paragraph” and sending a link or recommending a piece if you feel I’ve earned it.
As long as we are reading… Maybe we are slowly reclaiming the world?
Let Art Be Worth Something Again
I have a long history of giving away all work for free.
The words I post near-daily online for a decade.
Scholarships for any dance student who needed it (worth it).
Private lessons and classes for no fees (worth it).
My work as an Artistic Director of a body positive dance theater company for upwards of 8 years was almost-always-and-oft for free (so damn worth it).
My point? …..
Thank you for your support. There are not enough words for how much it’s needed… but I certainly will try to find and give them.
