The Collection Returns

Aspiring to be fortnightly, for now monthly will do

An acquaintance sent a newsletter to me about a week ago. She forwarded it as an example of how the under-30 set consumes news. I’m a collector of such things, both illustrations of how the current young take their news and examples of successful newsletters.

The newsletter intrigued me. It led me to another newsletter, also intriguing. Both were built on a successful emerging format. They got me thinking about my abandoned newsletter. This one. The Collection.

I had been on the right track for format. I even had plans for a similar incentive system to build this list. But I had engaged in mission creep. To my original idea of a curated newsletter of works from right-of-center women I had added my own writing and an online magazine of original content to be sourced and edited by me and a few writer friends. I still don’t regret our magazine attempt, even if hindsight proved it was a #failfast exercise. I learned a lot and I miss the daily work with those women. But I did set myself up for burnout even without the feelings of futility that finally did me in. (If you are new to this email, all of that can be found at the top of the Iron Ladies magazine on Medium.)

But now it’s a year and a half later. The 2020 campaign has been heating up for months, and I see growing interest in what women think, which I’ve been anxious to do something about, with, for.

Between the inspiration from the forwarded newsletter, my stash of #failfast lessons to draw upon, and some hopes I have for political discourse in the future, I decided to fire Iron Ladies back up.

I’m restarting only this curated collection email once a month. I aspire to be fortnightly, but I finally started teaching life administration, so a collection at the start of each month is all I will attempt right now.

I will link to various works that are thought provoking, insightful, and respectful public discourse. Links will be to articles and authors, not publications. Policing co-workers isn’t very conservative woman. We simply aren’t “the personal is political types” who think that every personal association or action has political meaning. There is so more to life than politics. So links are not endorsements of environment — or even everything within the link. Conservative women don’t always agree. Trust me.

Anyway, enough (re)introduction. I’m glad to be back at this.

Related posts:

The Shiba Inu is one of the most popular and lucrative joke currencies. It became very popular very quickly in early 2021 for two main reasons. When Vitalik Buterin, co-founder and acclaimed…

Noooooooooo! Six dollar per gallon gas? Ouch, that hurts, but there are things that can be done to obviate the pain some. First (issues of price gouging aside), the rules of supply and demand are…

After your body absorbs nutrients, poop, also known as feces, is what’s left of your meals and drink. You’re not alone if you’ve ever felt lighter and less bloated following a bowel movement. If you…