Point Of Order
After posting my desperate plea, which you can read below, I was flooded by three emails from people telling me they'd send me money if I'd only put up a Pay Pal link or something similar. But I just can't bring myself do that. I did it once before in this space, but that was to fund a specific project, not to pay for Huggies.
We're not so desperate that I'm actually reduced begging for money without working in return. I do have SOME gigs lined up, including a couple of regular monthly ones, but I'll need several more, or one large one, so we can get through the fall until I finish this book I'm working on. This isn't a permanent cri de coeur, and it's not a proclamation of poverty. That would be an insult to the 95 percent of the world's population who have to work much harder for much less money than I do. I do someday intend to insult those people, but not like this.
Cashflow is the bane of the freelance life. Well, that and paying for your own health insurance.