Hello Reader Greetings from Umbria in Italy, where I’m working this week with my friends at The Idler Academy. As usual I’m drawing pictures, in intervals between sessions teaching rhetoric and impro. But im also thinking of Special Projects members, of whom there are several new one this month. Hello!, members new and not-new. Thank you for putting your trust in me. I’m writing this email on my iPad, and have a strong suspicion it may raise as many new questions as it answers old ones. If...

Hello Last week, without giving it a lot of thought, I posted on Instagram a photo of the last pill in my last packet of anti-depressants. I'd originally taken the photo, and marked it up, as a kind of mini-celebration to share with people in my house. Obviously (?), I felt a bit exposed sharing this on Instagram, but why the heck not. After all, I’ve posted all kinds of things about having been mentally fragile in the past. Indeed, I've stood in front of huge numbers of strangers in busy...

Hello Reader Recently (*in the summer), I invited a handful of splendid individuals who happen to read this newsletter to give me one item of news - something on their mind - in ONE sentence beginning with their full name. I insisted there was no hierarchy of significance or mood, and was delighted to receive the following, some of which may be out of date by the time you read this: (Click on the links, where they are supplied, to find out more about the various splendid individuals.) Tracie...