How this website came to pass
So here's what happened.
From the end of 2005 until July, 2018 I owned a little restaurant and grocery store in a town called Ashfield, in Western Massachusetts. I ended up there through the courtesy of Hurricane Katrina, who took out my New Orleans home (the home I actually lived in at the time) and everything in it while I was in Massachusetts working on the Green River Festival. So, being just a little out of my mind (that'll happen when you're suddenly homeless) but kind of enchanted with this little tiny New England town of 1700 people, and being a huge fan of community and people actually talking to each other in a town's small businesses, I bought Elmer's Store (called that since 1937) and opened it back up after a three-year closure and made up how to run a store and restaurant! And it worked pretty well!
Seeing as how I'd rather write than just about anything else in life, I started writing an Elmer's Store email - originally weekly, and then more often. It started out containing the week's dinner menus but then grew to add anything that was in my head that day. And there's a lot in my head. It gained in popularity so that people all over the region, the country and then, the world started reading it and when I sold the store, people called and wrote to ask if I would still write the email! (Which was very sweet of them!) So I am. It goes out either once a week or whenever I have something new in my head, whichever comes first. If you'd like to sign up for it you can! Right on the "Stuff That's in my Head" page!
That's all that will happen - you'll just get an email that might be entertaining every week or so. Nothing else. So I hope that's all you were hoping for.
Thank you and good night.
From the end of 2005 until July, 2018 I owned a little restaurant and grocery store in a town called Ashfield, in Western Massachusetts. I ended up there through the courtesy of Hurricane Katrina, who took out my New Orleans home (the home I actually lived in at the time) and everything in it while I was in Massachusetts working on the Green River Festival. So, being just a little out of my mind (that'll happen when you're suddenly homeless) but kind of enchanted with this little tiny New England town of 1700 people, and being a huge fan of community and people actually talking to each other in a town's small businesses, I bought Elmer's Store (called that since 1937) and opened it back up after a three-year closure and made up how to run a store and restaurant! And it worked pretty well!
Seeing as how I'd rather write than just about anything else in life, I started writing an Elmer's Store email - originally weekly, and then more often. It started out containing the week's dinner menus but then grew to add anything that was in my head that day. And there's a lot in my head. It gained in popularity so that people all over the region, the country and then, the world started reading it and when I sold the store, people called and wrote to ask if I would still write the email! (Which was very sweet of them!) So I am. It goes out either once a week or whenever I have something new in my head, whichever comes first. If you'd like to sign up for it you can! Right on the "Stuff That's in my Head" page!
That's all that will happen - you'll just get an email that might be entertaining every week or so. Nothing else. So I hope that's all you were hoping for.
Thank you and good night.