Rethinking The Way I Work

an indefinite pause to paid subscriptions

Hi all. Happy 2025. I’ve been spending the last couple of months mostly chipping away at my cookbook manuscript. With a toddler at home 24/7, I’ve been finding it hard to find words or get into any sort of poetic groove. Every paragraph I unfurl feels like a clunky block of bricks, which I know I can eventually finesse into something coherent given enough time.

The early stages of motherhood, I’ve found, are not conducive to creative work, even though I sometimes do feel like I need the creative work to feel like a fully functioning adult. But most of the time I’m just burnt out and in dire need of a long nap.

With that said, I’ve been thinking about the way I work, and have decided to put an indefinite pause to paid subscriptions as I reshape my relationship with writing and embark on a new project. This pause technically started in November; none of you guys should’ve been charged since then. If you have and something slipped through the cracks, please let me know.

I will always have articles (and hopefully books) in the pipeline, but with the state of media right now, it’s naive to continue to depend on writing as my primary source of income.

What I’m working on right now is a bit out of my comfort zone, but it’s an idea that I’ve been nurturing quietly since the summer, and something that will build on my work as a researcher and writer.

I’ll continue to publish updates occasionally on this platform, and hopefully, when I get a bit of more breathing room—restart paid subscriptions with more enlightening and invigorating posts.

Thank you, as always, for reading my work. More to come in the new year.