Notes on Everyday Life: Substack

This was an edit of their default "Coming Soon" file. It was meant as a placeholder for new accounts, but I decided to edit it and offer some explanation of what was "coming soon." This wasn't mailed out. There is also a default "About" page. I haven't touched this yet, but probably should.

• Hello World [2025-07-14] [ss]

These are the newsletter posts. They will all be archived here. The Substack links are designated as [ss]. They should give you access to comments, which (so far, at least) are not archived here (not least because hardly any exist there). I've changed the order to LIFO (last in, first out), like a blog.

2026

1. Music Week (7:2) [07-08] [ss]
2. Music Week (7:1) [07-03] [ss]
3. Music Week (6:4) [06-26] [ss]
4. After Violence [06-23] [ss]
5. After Iran [06-22] [ss]
6. Music Week (6:3) [06-17] [ss]
7. Music Week (6:2) [06-09] [ss]
8. Music Week (6:1) [06-03] [ss]
9. But Reality Is Unscripted [05-29]
10. Music Week in Advance [05-25] [ss]
11. The Real Road to Serfdom [05-05] [ss]
12. Lookback: Iraq 2003 [05-02] [ss]
13. Explaining Inflation [04-27] [ss]
14. Iran War: The Big Question [04-05] [ss]
15. Iran War: The Three Questions [04-03] [ss]
16. Days of Infamy [03-13] [ss]
17. Home Cooking [unpublished] [01-30] [ss]
18. Editing Help Wanted [01-10] [ss]

2025

1. Christmas 1950-2025 [12-27] [ss]
2. Notes on Everyday Life [Nov 10] [10-12] [ss]
3. Making Peace in Gaza and Beyond [10-21] [ss]
4. Gaza War Peace Plan [10-17] [ss]
5. Cooking Chinese [10-02] [ss]
6. More Thoughts on Loose Tabs [09-24] [ss]
7. More Thoughts About Bernie Sanders and Capitalism [09-04] [ss]
8. Bernie Sanders [08-19] [ss]
9. Sheila Jordan (1928-2025) [08-17] [ss]
10. Four Stories [08-10] [ss]

Temporary files I'm working on: Listed here only so I can find them, but they're not permanent links:

• T1: Loose Tabs (May 2025)
• T2: Not the Dean's List
• T3: Sonny Rollins