Lint Rollers…Beef Hearts…and a 2025 Suburban: The Backdrop to Every Word You Read

From Brussels sprouts to Border Collies…here’s the raw backdrop of my work (Plus a BONUS)

Aug 22, 2025

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Lint Rollers…Beef Hearts…and a 2025 Suburban: The Backdrop to Every Word You Read

From Brussels sprouts to Border Collies…here’s the raw backdrop of my work.

The Jack Hopkins Now Newsletter #500: Friday, August 22nd, 2025. 5:35 PM CST
Many writers hide behind a wall of words. They want you to know their ideas…but never let you peek behind the curtain at where those ideas come from. I’ve never liked that approach.

If you’re paying me your hard-earned dollars each month…you deserve to know not just what I’m saying…but where I’m saying it from. That’s the least I can do.

So let me pull back the curtain a little…not a full autobiography…not a Better Homes & Gardens spread (God forbid)…but a glimpse of the base of operations. My “home field.” Where the words you read are born.

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