After a year of big transitions — to a new platform, with a disbanded paywall, free content for everyone and new publishing schedule — here’s an update on Improvised Life and its fantastic community.
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Improvised Life’s Very Quiet Birthday Celebration
July 4th was Improvised Life’s birthday, the day, eight years ago I pressed PUBLISH and took the site live in what seemed like a giant leap. How the 4,000 articles in its archive has come remains something of a mystery…
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Last-Minute, Inexpensive, Artisan-Made Gift (They Won’t Throw Out)
actress Hari Neff said hers was a pineapple a schoolmate gave her many years ago. There’s nothing worse than a bad gift you don’t know what to do with that and you just throw out. You can’t throw out a pineapple. We heartily recommend this inexpensive gift for friends and family (or even yourself), that is way better than Neff’s luscious pineapple…
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Check Out Our Instagram @whynot_improvise
We discover SO many TINY improvisations as we wander through our days that we decided to start tracking them on Instagram. You can see the latest in Improvised Life’s sidebar, though you won’t necessarily know what it is. You’ll find the bigger view of our Improvised Life, with commentary, at instagram.com/whynot_improvise…Like the 50-cent Lil Debbie Cake, above,
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Mail’s here!
Our newsletters are a love letter to our readers: A collection of what’s happening and what we’re up to. Subscribing sends us right into your your inbox so you’ll have our quirky, thoughtfully-crafted content to read with your morning coffee. We know what it’s like to be bombarded by the words “please subscribe”. We hear we are worth…
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Seth Godin: Is it Meaningful?
Seth Godin recently reposted In Search of Meaningful, an article he wrote six years ago when the New York Times first instituted their paywall. It’s about what kind of digital content is truly valuable and worth paying for. He asked three questions to self-test the value of the content you/we are producing or are reading:
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gratitude to our ‘friends with benefits’
A couple of weeks ago, after we posted our invitation/plea to become a ‘friend with benefits’ and support ‘the improvised life’, we received quite an outpouring of support, from subscription sign-ups to one-time donations to messages of how much our daily postings mean to our readers. Our favorite was this one: Hi, Love your work…
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thank you for being a friend
One of the things we love the most here at The Improvised Life is the sense of community we feel with our readers. We get some amazing feedback, and what we hear more often than not is that you love to wake up to the little tidbits of inspiration we post here bright and early…
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