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We're gonna lean this ladder up against the water tower

The Friday Newsletter wants love and trust and friends and hammers, this summer

Scott Hines
Jun 24
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I feel like I’m constantly crowing about milestones and anniversaries around here, but you know what?

I’m gonna do it again.

This weekend marks three years since I launched the initial incarnation of this newsletter, which—as longtime readers may know—bore little resemblance to what it is today. I was in the midst of a brief foray into podcasting, and the newsletter, like the podcast it was intended to support, was primarily sports-focused. Most of my writing online to that point had been about sports, and when the businesses that supported that started to shift their focus, I decided to hang out my own shingle.

After a short while, though, I realized that having my own newsletter meant I could write about whatever I wanted—parenting, life experiences, personal essays… and also food. A few months in, I debuted the first “Friday Newsletter”—I have tried and failed multiple times to come up with any better term for it than that—where I shared various food/drink/entertainment things that I…

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