We Interrupt this Program.....

I’ve kept personal notes to a minimum here but come this morning with a bit of a pleading. In about five weeks, I will have been writing on Substack for three years. It has been wonderful finding regular readers and getting their feedback, but I was hopeful of a broader reach, which is what every writer wants. Growth, however, has been flat for the past three months, though I am very grateful for the quite engaged readership I presently enjoy.

I’d like to ask, however, that if my work is worthy of your recommendation, that you might spread it around and share. I’m looking for more subscribers. My goal is to keep this completely free by having the people who can afford a paid subscription underwrite the work for those who cannot. Toward that end, I’ve offered samples of the work below that can be shared to get in front of more people. My interests are not just politics but cover history, travel, literature, the environment, and a general human interest.

There’s a chance I may have improperly branded this effort by calling it “Texas to the World” because I certainly do not constrain the work to simply this state, which is evident from the samplings below. These include a piece on the Titan submersible tragedy and my personal connection to Newfoundland, a feature on what is possibly the finest baseball diamond between the East and West Coast out in Alpine, Texas, a takedown of religious zealots, a solo motorcycle ride to look for a favorite poet of my youth, an essay on how time rushes away with friends in the West, the story of my first airplane ride, which was in a thunderstorm across the Grand Canyon, and, of course, an expository piece on the glories of Big Bend.

If you haven’t read these, I hope you will find them worthy of your time and interest, and that you might take the time to share them with anyone you think would enjoy the material and be a possible subscriber, paid or free. And thank you for your support and friendship. It means a great deal to me. - JM