I've been keeping a secret

and you're invited in!!!

This year, I’ve been working on a big project:

Creating a bonafide, in your hands, print magazine with the ethos of Breadcrumbs.

In March, I turned thirty, which I had looked forward to the way some people are excited to turn sixteen or twenty-one. A friend who gets it called me and said, “I feel like we’re aging into our personalities.”

To celebrate this milestone birthday, I invited some friends to the mountains for an “inner child retreat,” a weekend to unleash our creativity and the parts of ourselves who prioritized play. We filled a wall of post-its with activities we loved to do as kids: Play hide and seek. Make a fort. Drink water out of bowls on the ground like dogs.

All weekend long, we’d choose an activity and commit to playing until we felt done. Then, we’d choose another. Time expanded in a way I haven’t felt since childhood; we could read and play pretend and make a craft and splash in the hot tub and dance, all before lunchtime.

The feeling of dropping into a passion for an afternoon and exploring the depths of it, then coming out of it and moving on, is what reading print magazines have always felt like to me. To be enthralled with a story or taken in by someone’s art and then put the physical thing down, only to pick it back up and tear out pages or cut them up and create with them… magazines were the best thing to happen to mailboxes. They were way more fun than phones. I miss them.

The magazine I’m working on is for people who feed their spirits, who let the juice of beauty and challenge and life drip down their chins. It’s for people who lean all the way in to the awkward and the celebration. Breadcrumbs has always been about paying attention, and this print magazine is that on a collaborative scale. I want reading it to feel like a big playdate with your most thoughtful friend. There’s depth, but more than anything, there’s wonder and joy.

The first issue’s theme is Into the Wild Unknown, and I’m looking for more work to feature!

Here’s what we have so far:

• Sketchbook Show & Tell (open for submissions! send me pages of your sketchbooks!)

• A collage art feature

• A dating advice column for the anti-app crowd

• An interview with a woman who built out a trailer and traveled the US for a year

• A meal prep recipe for PMDD, or anyone craving a balanced meal

If you have photography, art, poems, illustrations, thoughts, essays, journalism, lists, or anything in between that feels like it might fit the theme of “Into the Wild Unknown,” I want to see it! Email me at hibreadcrumbs@gmail.com with submissions.¹

1. You’ll still own the rights to your work, and it’s ok if it’s been published elsewhere as long as the other publication doesn’t have exclusive rights. This magazine is made by people, for people, so please no AI generated submissions!