About Bread and Stories

If you have enough money for two loaves of bread, buy a loaf of bread and a pot of geraniums. —a long-ago neighbor

What Is Bread and Stories?

Through personal stories and recipes, this ezine aims to feed both soul and body. Each post is a loaf of bread and a pot of geraniums. And because the world is a dark, divided place—a place that right this minute is breaking my heart—Bread and Stories crosses as many borders as possible. Barriers drift away like the steam from your mother's ragout chicken. What's left is just a person telling you their story and inviting you to sample a flavor of their home.

Bread and Stories is open to guest posts from anywhere. You don't have to think of yourself as a writer; all you need is a meaningful story to tell about what nourishes you. As the editor, my goal is to help you tell your story in your own voice. Each post is copyright by the author.

Who Publishes This Blog?

I'm Jody Frank, a professional writer and editor who started blogging from her lonely desk during the early days of the COVID-19 pandemic. Those contemplative posts for family and friends became Things Invisible to See, which now lives tucked under Bread and Stories like an anchoress.

An Independent Project

I launched Bread and Stories on the open-source Ghost platform so that it can be truly independent. When a commercial platform is free to use, you're always the product somehow, entreating its content promotion algorithms like Oliver Twist begging for gruel. I trust this blog will find its community of readers more organically. Plus I grew up in a haunted house, so Ghost sounds like home to me.

Things Invisible to See

This Ghost-space will also provide a new home for selected posts from Things Invisible to See.

Why Subscribe?

Subscribe for free to get new public posts delivered to your inbox, or choose a paid subscription to support this project–not to mention, feel beams of gratitude warming you from a little desk in the Blue Ridge Mountains. Paid subscriptions help cover the cost of Ghost's platform subscription fee, which grows with the subscriber count, and thus helps Bread and Stories continue to exist.

Whichever subscription you choose, thanks for being here!