Ten years, four platforms, one me

This September, Low Tide turns ten. In that time I have sent 258 letters, recorded 41 episodes, given 31 talks and written, by my own embarrassed count, a little over two thousand threads.

They live in four places, under four logins, in four designs I did not choose. Each place has its own idea of who I am. In the newsletter I am a writer. In the podcast app I am a show. On the video site I am a speaker with a lanyard. In the threads I am whoever I was at eleven at night.

One person, scattered

None of these is false. But none of them is the whole, and nobody — not even me — could see the whole. When a festival asked for "a link to your work", I sent four.

I spent this spring building one home for all of it. I did not do it alone or with code; I described what I wanted, in plain words, and worked through it step by step until it was real. It pulls in the letters, the episodes and the talks, keeps the threads worth keeping, and puts them under my own name.

Renting is fine, until it isn't

I still use every one of those platforms. They are good at what they do. But I no longer confuse a place that hosts my work with a place that keeps it. One is rent. The other is a home.

Lena · 26 July 2026, Lisbon