Excerpt Sunday, or Something

Looking For Ways To Reward Subscribers

The morning of Little Bean's recorder concert also happened to fall on Dress Up Day at school, a day in which she made it clear that she'd be in charge of picking out her outfit.

"You look wonderfully like Ms. Frizzle," I tell her.

"Ms. Frizzle if the episode was about going inside a claw machine," she quips referring to the cat stuffies on her dress. She also selected a pair of her mom's boots, so "they can hear me coming" she says.

Hearing them coming wouldn't be an issue with 30 kids honking away on their recorders. But little did I know that a simple third grade class recorder concert would turn into a pop culture rabbit hole that connected my daughter to a chihuahua named Gidget and a late 90s phenomenon designed to sell tacos. But it did.

This is that story...

~ Excerpt from "Chihuahua Music," coming soon to Day By Day

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Happy Sunday friends. I just got back from New York and didn’t have much time for today’s post but wanted to give you all a little taste of what will become an extended article that will run in different forms here, at Manchester Ink Link and hopefully over at an upcoming anthology by Monadnock Underground.

To that end I’ve been thinking about ways to reward this wonderful community - all of you very patient and lovely subscribers that put up with my daily nonsense.

So, what we’re going to do is give you all - just the subscribers - a little monthly exclusive essay. Something not available to the general reader. You want it, ya gotta subscribe, that sort of thing. I think the essay I posted above will be that first one.

I’m still tweaking what works and what doesn’t on this platform so bear with me, but we’ll come up with something for you.

There’s a lot coming in the weeks ahead - stories on Library Groupies, Little Bean’s interview with Freeze the Fall (which by the way is expanding every day into what I think might become a two or three part series), our upcoming big meet and greet concert with Plush, a story on Little Bean’s Dungeons and Dragons Club, a look at her mask making exhibit, and also I want to write a story on this tree, which I discovered in the Catskills.

So, thanks for being here. Please let me know what stories work and which you could do without. (I see the engagement numbers so I do have sort of an idea.) Our community is growing, though I’d love to grow it faster of course! So any suggestions you may have in that regard I’d entertain as well.

Let’s have a great Sunday and come at this new week refreshed and moving at eleven! Let’s go!