You Are Doing A Good Enough Job

Thank you for being a paid subscriber to You Are Doing A Good Enough Job. Here’s a perk: a Drive with a ton of videos, slide shows, and PDFs that are exclusive to you. We have arrived at PEAK SUMMER in the Northern Hemisphere. Though it doesn’t feel like that to me, because there were lots of cool days in June, and then there was an imp…

Dear Friend, Sammi and I recently sold our fiftieth New Yorker cartoon. I typed that sentence and then went back to make sure it could be true, because it feels like it has to not be true. But in fact, the number is somehow closer to 60, which I am telling you, I guess, just to brag about it. Get plenty of bragging AND MORE by subscribing! I’ve had a hard time writing this post. First, because (as mentioned already) it feels braggy.

This is the monthly paid post where I answer a question or two. You should ask one! Anything goes. An interesting thing happened to me yesterday (or, I happened to an interesting thing; the verb “happened” is often a little ambiguous). I read a great question from someone named Melanie, about sobriety, and spent a long, long time writing a…

Hi Out There! I’ve got a few guest 10 Things posts in the pipelines, and this is one I’m particularly excited about. I love all the amazing things that hope amico does, and I have a feeling you’re about to be a fan. Her Substack, everything is an experiment is exactly the flash of hope and joy you need in your Inbox (so let me make it really easy for you to subscribe!): I’m keeping the whole thing above the paywall so you can enjoy this fantastic offering from a brilliant writer.

Thank you for being a paid subscriber to You Are Doing A Good Enough Job. Here’s a perk: a Drive with a ton of videos, slide shows, and PDFs that are exclusive to you. Wow, well… it has been an eventful long time since I photo-dumped at you — which always reminds me, with delight, of what I always imagined it was like to do a slide show…

Dear Friend, My daughter, T, has started sleeping in our bed. She doesn’t start out there. She starts out in her own bed, where it’s the right temperature, the right darkness, where all her stuffed animals live, and her books, and her approximately nine million things purchased to try to get her to sleep. She’s always had trouble sleeping through the night, and I was the same way as a child. I think the night is incredibly scary.

Come to Chicago it is the tropics. Hey There Erins, June is in full-swing, and I have that specific sadness that comes from wishing time could stretch out and take up more space than …

Hello out there! Comin’ atcha with 10 timely suggestions. If you are dying to know, in a long-winded way, what I really thought of The Sheep Detectives (movie) and Yesteryear (book), my full impressions are below the paywall. But everyone gets to (and SHOULD) take advantage of my summer playlist.

Thank you for being a paid subscriber to You Are Doing A Good Enough Job. Here’s a perk: a Drive with a ton of videos, slide shows, and PDFs that are exclusive to you. I let a month slip without a check-in, and I did notice. I wondered about how you were doing; there were a lot of updates last time; a lot of plot lines left up in the ai…

PLUS: Lots of "over the hill" t-shirts, scored. Article voiceover 0:00 -25:06 Audio playback is not supported on your browser. Please upgrade. A Note for You, If You’re Having a Tough Day My Dear Friend, What are the hills you’d die on? Historically, we died on hills because it was militarily advantageous. High ground was strategic. Linguistically, we die on hills out of principled sense of self. Becoming is a process of deciding what you care about. The more you care, the more you are.