A selfie of Delia Rodriguez-Masjoan, a latina with grey hair and a big smile. She is in an officd setting
Meet Help Her Run’s 2026 instructor, Delia Rodriguez-Masjoan
You may recognize her from her show on WPRI, Channel 12!
BTW: Help Her Run is a not-for-profit initiative. Most of the costs are underwritten so it’s affordable to learn how to support women candidates
Good morning! Are you thinking about volunteering for a woman running for office in RI this year?
Sign up for your choice of Help Her Run classes - learn campaign strategy, field management, fundraising…everything you need to make a real impact
Classes start in May!
www.helpherrun.org
This is horrific. I feel physically ill.
(Reposted with ALT text)
Wow there’s a roll up happening. Multiple small family-owned insurance companies in RI have been bought out in the past few years by big regionals.
Shoot
Referrals needed: My home & car insurance rep just left and was replaced by the most patronizing man on the planet. So, I need a new insurance rep serving RI.
Suggestions?
Absolutely! Patreon is very flexible.
Well firstly, it would be preferable if you launch on any other platform (ghost, beehiiv, buttondown, patreon) instead of making outright Nazis rich
Research on this here leavesubstack.com
This Is Just To Say
I have turned off
the AI features
that were in
the update
and which
you were probably
hoping
to monetize
Fuck you
they were stupid
so unnecessary
and so annoying
I always bought a lot of art, what changed during the pandemic was I started collecting art with people in it, especially portraiture
Ok, I am also excessively fond of The Shop Floor Project, run by a mother-daughter team with marvelously quirky taste. The site and their emails are beautiful, and they have sucked me into buying art pottery which was never ever on my radar
theshopfloorproject.com
I had a friend who spent her career in one of these. She loved it and was very sad to retire
I honestly feel like most art galleries are similar to most book publishers these days, they take a big cut and they look good on your resume but they market for shit
The two that actually work it are Anne Irwin Fine Art (paintings) and Jackson Fine Art (photography) both coincidentally in Atlanta GA
I’m on dozens of art gallery mailing lists, and aside from formulaic monthly show announcements, only two actually aggressively market to me. Both mainly sell to decorators but their prices are in line with mid-range fine art.
Why’s fine art ashamed of marketing? Artists gotta eat!
Absolutely canceling next Monday because cannot possibly get up and caffeinate for 9am two Mondays in a row.
You may have given some random heir a big thrill
Welcome to dyslexia: In which I get all tangled as per usual in the back parking lots of downtown and wind up out of breath, racing five minutes late into the building for my meeting only to find I added it to the calendar incorrectly and it’s next monday at 9am instead.
Honestly 50% chance they would let you and then they would go on to be great hits and revive the original’s sales
“Tries to buy”… it’s like he doesn’t know any booklovers IRL, because the real challenge is holding one’s self back
Good news for Substack publishers who are uncomfortable with its Nazi owners - Out of Your League, a sports newsletter about women and gender expansive athletes, just released their $ data after moving off Substack and they GAINED net revenues!
www.thefrankiedlc.news/p/seven-mont...
Yes! She spoke highly of hardware cloth, which I always thought was chicken wire.
I use rolling raised container beds and hope the rabbits won’t jump that far up
Lastly she whipped out a sharpie - apparently you can get an ‘industrial’ or ‘extreme’ sharpie that you can use to write names on dahlia tubers when you store them for winter or trade them with friends in spring.
Great presentation- hope you get a chance to meet her someday too!
Gabriele also showed us how to clip tubers from the mass so they can be planted separately. She uses strong light and a magnifying glass, so don’t feel badly if you can’t always spot the node with your eyes.
Gabriele noted the best place yo store dahlias is an old new england house with a basement floor made of dirt. I knew this because what seemed like everyone on Acquidneck Island used to store their dahlia tubers in my sister’s dirt basement when she had one
Every couple of weeks, open the plastic bag for a day or two to let excess moisture out until it stops being too moist.
Then leave in a place 44-55 degrees (never freezing) until it’s time to separate and plant in May
Best way to store: after digging, let rest for 48 hours. Clip off roots, ‘mother tuber’ & the stem. Plunk the rest of the clump upside down in an opaque plastic bag filled with cedar chips (not pine!) which you can buy cheaply as ‘animal bedding’ at Walmart
Aside from deer and voles, borer larvea love them. They hatch from tiny eggs in the plant and hollow out the stem. Your plant droops & you think it needs water, but then it topples and you see the larvea inside. Gabriele saved 4 Cafe Au Lait dahlias in 2025 by injecting stems with hydrogen peroxide!
Dahlia tubers are edible, and deers adore them, but for humans “they taste like cardboard”
The worst-selling dahlias are yellow.
The hottest dahlias on the market now are short, reddish-leaved bedding plants, which Germans use instead of impatiens, and ‘micro-flowering’ dahlias with tiny blooms.