What is Stay Curious?
Stay Curious is my humorous newsletter of conversational writing.
The title refers to staying engaged, attentive, interested in (“curious”) and embracing your own kind of difference, off-beat, weirdness (also “curious”). I think both definitions of the term sum up how I see myself: someone who relishes thinking deeply and looking closely and also someone who celebrates her lovable (hopefully? yes?) quirkiness.
What to expect…
I use humor to translate the confounding, hard, incredible experience of being alive and living in the world. I aim to give you material that is uplifting, entertaining, interesting, maybe something that makes you think a little, and hopefully something that makes you laugh a lot (or at all! I AM INSECURE!). Expect weekly dispatches sliding your way in 3….2….
Who am I?
I am a humanities geek at heart, interested in a lot of different stuff. I like to spend time nosing around in arts and entertainment; pop culture; visual media; New England history; material culture; nostalgia; the 1980s; and other things that spark my curiosity. I’m a failed perfectionist. A GenX-er 4LYFE. A compulsive observer and chronic overthinker–a cigar is never just a cigar, sorry Freud! I’m a proud, salty New Englandahh, child free, incurably uncool.
And yadda yadda yadda…
I’m also the author of Boston and Beyond: Discovering Cities, Harbors, and Country Charms (Globe Pequot; out now! yay!); Book Lover’s New England: A Guide to Literary Landmarks (Globe Pequot; slated for pub 2026), and The League of Extraordinarily Funny Women: 50 Trailblazers of Comedy (Running Press, avail where all books are sold). I am represented by Full Circle Literary.
Some other publishing credits include The Belladonna Comedy, The Huffington Post, and Maria Shriver. I’m also a regular writer for Medium’s FanFare publication. I have contributed on-air to the nationally syndicated podcasts Backstory with the History Guys; Trailblazers with Walter Isaacson; Bright Young Things book podcast; and have been featured on radio as a guest of Chicago’s WGN Bill Leff & Wendy Snyder Show. My photography has been licensed for commercial use and can be viewed on Instagram (@wordnerdshe). Prints are available for purchase and licensing. All rights reserved.
Enjoy and thank you for hanging out and being a part of this gang.
Appreciate you.
X-She
