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Thank you

This week, The Museum of Small and Important Things surpassed 3,000 subscribers, including 37 wonderful paid subscribers! Thank you for supporting my work—whether it’s by reading, liking, commenting, or sharing, you encourage me to keep going.

The idea that 3,000 people are interested in what I have to say is pretty freaking cool and no small deal to me. I try my best to make it worthwhile for you all and provide something of value. Publishing and interacting with you all here has been impactful in my writing and art practice.

My career is illustration, which typically means illustrating other people’s words and ideas. But my goal is to be an author/illustrator and illustrate my own words and ideas, so I’ve been actively working toward and shifting my focus in that direction over the past year or so. And I’ve been working on writing and illustrating my own book for the past few years!

I launched this Substack a couple of years ago but I didn’t really understand how to use it o…