#186: Yes I’m changing
A newsletter update
Hey everyone,
I hoped to keep skirting by and avoid saying this, but I’ve finally hit a wall and you might have noticed anyway. I’m struggling with my writing and need to ask for some grace as I take my foot off the gas and adjust my normal publishing schedule. I initially conceived of Maybe Baby’s cadence and structure years ago, and as much as I’ve wanted to jump back into it after having a baby, it’s working less and less. My life is different now, and rather than approaching that fact with fear, denial, and panic, I need to surrender and start seeing the possibility in it. I trust it’s there! I just need some time and space to find it.
In the interim, my emails will be less consistent. You may see me experimenting with what goes out when, and although I won’t bore you with announcing every change as it happens, the current plan is to continue publishing my recommendations (15 things), advice column (Dear Baby), and advice podcast (Dear Danny) as normal, and to publish essays and other podcasts more sporadically, or replace them with different kinds of dispatches. Free subscribers: This means you in particular will be hearing less from me for a bit, but hopefully not for too long. Paid subscribers: Thanks so much for responding to my survey last week, it was super helpful in kicking off this process. I’m excited to reimagine what Maybe Baby can be, and eventually get back to a predictable rhythm.
I’m saying all this at the risk of over-explaining, like one of those long Instagram captions announcing a social media break, but consistency has been so important to me over the last four years, and many of you have expressed appreciating the consistency specifically, and are also paying me, so I feel you deserve a heads up. Thank you so much for all your support, which bowls me over all the time. I know they’re just emails, but they’re my emails, and you’re my subscribers, and I care so much about keeping the quality level high around here! Thanks for giving me a beat to reinvent.
Haley
