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. 

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.