Introductions

From the Editor

Hi. I’m Carson and this is Slowpoke. I thought about calling it Slowpoke Illustrated because I wanted it to have a name that made it sound like a newspaper. I thought: I’ll design an old-fashioned newspaper masthead. I’ll call myself the editor-in-chief. Each newsletter will have a few different segments with titles that sound like newspaper sections, and each installment will begin with From the Editor.

But everyone I asked said that just Slowpoke is better than Slowpoke Illustrated. And it occurs to me that maybe I don’t want this to be a place with rules and parameters and a conceptual vision. Maybe I should just let it evolve.

That said, I do still want to call myself the editor-in-chief. Also, if you’re interested in a beautiful newsletter that quietly nods to local newspaper journalism, may I recommend The Quill Scene by Nikki McClure?

the editor-in-chief

Home & Garden

I live on a small historic farmstead south of Portland, Oregon. I’m not a farmer. I’m not even an aspiring farmer. I’m a gardener, the keeper of a few farm animals, and, along with my family, the caretaker of this old property, established by a country doctor from Indiana who came over on the Oregon Trail.

This is my big gambrel-roofed barn:

And this is my household:

That’s us.

Who are you? Feel free to say hi and introduce yourself in the comments. Tell us where you’re from and what you’re into.