Archive - Good Things by JLW

Phone notes: What did you love when you were ten?

Writing menus for special occasions in my very best handwriting

Aug 4 •

Jess Lea-Wilson

June 2025

Essay: Menu overwhelm

The server waits, smiling but eyes already on the bar

Jun 20 •

Jess Lea-Wilson

May 2025

Essay: A gun and a carrier bag of cake

The road becomes progressively less like a road as we go on

May 23 •

Jess Lea-Wilson

April 2025

March 2025

Phone notes: 'Making life possible'

The woman puts it down to the sea

Mar 6 •

Jess Lea-Wilson

February 2025

Essay: Caring for a living

Something about this last bit makes me look away

Feb 2 •

Jess Lea-Wilson

January 2025

Phone notes: One word for 2025

My sister-in-law asks us for one word to have in mind for the year ahead

Jan 5 •

Jess Lea-Wilson

December 2024

The Good Things Calendar 2025

Good Things on your wall for every month of the year

Dec 1, 2024 •

Jess Lea-Wilson

November 2024

Phone notes: the chimney sweep and the cat

(and the white sofa)

Nov 7, 2024 •

Jess Lea-Wilson

October 2024

Phone notes: Even on bad days

How not to feel like a #GirlBoss

Oct 6, 2024 •

Jess Lea-Wilson

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