New Name For The Newsletter

Farewell Dave's Dispatch. Welcome to Aged Well!

Dear faithful readers,

I’d first like to thank you all for your support and engagement these last months. Writing here has been extremely rewarding for me, and so has been getting to know so many of you through our exchanges. There are more of you than there used to be, and I’m very excited about where this is heading!

Just a quick message to alert you to a few changes:

I was never fond of the name Dave’s Dispatch. I picked it because it was easy, direct, and because I anticipated that most of my subscribers would be people I knew in real life. As the newsletter has grown, that’s become less true. And I think it’s time for a change.

So I am hereby rebranding Dave’s Dispatch, which shall now be known as…

Aged Well

As in, “Wow, Dave, that aged well.” And you’ll note that the logo is a little carton of milk. The joke being…ah, you get it.

We’ll see if I like it any more than the old name. If I don’t, we may be doing this again in a year or so.

This won’t really impact you in any meaningful way, I just wanted to let you know. If you’re getting my posts, you will continue to get them, they just may appear to be from a different sender. So when you start getting email bombed by an outfit called ‘Aged Well,’ that’s me! Don’t ignore it!

I will also be relaunching what used to be the Dave’s Dispatch Podcast under this new name. I never really found a podcast format that I liked, so when my recording studio got trashed by a flood last October, I let it die on the vine. But I’ve had some feedback that readers appreciate my recording the audio for my posts, and when a post has been especially well liked by readers, I’d like its audio to be preserved in a more accessible, easier to share format.

So that’s what the podcast will be. My greatest hits, as it were. One topic per episode. Short and sweet. I’ll also be releasing the audio for some of my earlier pieces that got no traction owing to my having had no subscribers when I wrote them! As I continue to connect with more of you, some conversations in the more traditional podcast mold may appear too, but one thing at a time. The crappy, older episodes of Dave’s Dispatch should also still be available for anyone keen.

Do let me know if there are any problems with the new look or if any of the themes/logos/images failed to switch over. Nothing should say Dave’s Dispatch anymore, except for some of the old podcast titles. If something does, it’s an oversight, and I’d appreciate you giving me a heads up!

That’s really it! There’ll be a new name for the newsletter, a little glow-up for the website, and the pod will be coming back.

Also, I will have garbage internet access for most of June and July, so I may take longer to respond than usual. Apologies for any delays.

Happy (almost) summer!

~Dave