Support
Everything here stays open: every note, every log, every path through the graph. If the writing has been worth something to you, these are the ways to keep it going.
Support monthly
A Ko-fi membership keeps the writing steady. There are two tiers:
Reader
$3 a month
- Essays a few days early (every essay stays public)
- Your name in the acknowledgements, if you want it
Interlocutor
$8 a month
- Everything in Reader
- First claim on prompt requests, one each quarter
- A word from me when the piece is done
Peso amounts are approximate: Ko-fi charges $3 and $8 a month, and your bank or PayPal converts it.
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Read along
New essays arrive by email when they're published: musings, thoughts and prose, not the daily logs.
Ask for a piece
Leave a tip on Ko-fi with a topic you'd like me to write about, or send it with the form below. I take up prompts as time allows, and Interlocutors' come first.
Thank you. Your prompt is on my desk; I'll write back if you left an address.
Write back
Responses, disagreements and corrections are support too: write to me, or select a few words in any note and choose write back to leave a note in its margin. How the pencil works says where those words go.
What this site keeps
- In your browser only: your reading settings, where you stopped in a long note, and your commonplace book (the passages you keep, your notes on them, and the notes you've visited). None of it is sent anywhere. Clear it from the commonplace page, or with your browser's site data.
- When you keep a passage: one anonymous mark is added to that passage's count. No name and no address; a passage shows "kept by" once three readers have kept it.
- While you read: a page counts how many readers are on it now, roughly how long each stays, how far into it they get, and how many finish a reading path. These are anonymous tallies with no name, and no address is stored.
- When you write in the margin: your note, the passage, and the name and email you give, if any, reach my inbox through Netlify. A note appears on the site only if you allowed it and I approve it, and never with your email.
- Replies from elsewhere: when you reply on Bluesky or Mastodon to a post that links a note, or link one from your own site, your public reply, name and link can appear under the note as "Elsewhere". Delete the reply and it goes on the next rebuild.
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