Your Irregular Reminder

Every so often, I feel I should remind y’all that I depend on your support to keep this blog going.  Of course, I mean featured reminders; this small one typically appears three times a week as a postscript on my news and links columns:

I find paywalls distasteful, and so many people find this blog valuable as a resource I just can’t bring myself to install one.  Furthermore, I find ad delivery services (whose content I have no say over) even more distasteful.  But as I’m now semi-retired from sex work, I can’t self-sponsor this blog by myself any longer.  So if you value my writing enough that you would pay to see it if it were paywalled, please consider subscribing; there are four different levels to fit all budgets.  Or if that doesn’t work for you, please consider showing your generosity with a one-time donation; you can Paypal to maggiemcneill@earthlink.net or else email me at the same address to make other arrangements.  Thanks so much!

Now, I don’t really want it to become a monthly feature or anything; about three times a year, posted whenever I think about it (and, truth be told, when I don’t have anything else I feel like writing about), seems the correct amount.  Things are going relatively OK financially; toward the end of ’22 I got about three months away from the no-standing-debt standard I had maintained since 2018, and I still haven’t quite managed to catch back up because new bills have almost kept pace with paying off old ones, and I occasionally lose a subscriber, donor, or client.  But while I started last year with some upcoming expenses I knew would be costly (such as stove installation and a lot of waterproofing), this year I can only see two big projects looming.  Both of them naturally involve getting up on rooves to seal them against rain; I really wish I never had to get up on another damned roof ever again, so of course the universe thinks regularly making me do it is terribly amusing.  But neither of them is likely to be extremely expensive, so maybe this year I’ll get back to that blessed state of “no standing debt”, so wonderfully conducive to peace of mind and restful sleep.

So if you appreciate my writing and would like to help me achieve and maintain that physical peace in order to complement and support the spiritual peace I’ve finally found after so many years of sturm und drang, please consider subscribing; if you can manage one of the higher levels, that would be especially nice.  But if you can’t, the regular subscription levels in the right-hand column will do nicely.  And if that’s still more than you can commit to, I do have an Amazon wishlist filled with things I really and truly want!  As always, thank you for reading and caring, and if you’re already a subscriber I cannot possibly thank you enough to match the gratitude I feel for your kindness and generosity.