Just wanted to send a note to the people who have subscribed to my Street Stories website and thank you for sticking with it even as I bumped through figuring out how to make this website work better. Finally figured out today how to add next-previous buttons to the bottom of each post, so you can easily read through a bunch. And I figured out how to move the images of people up to the top of the page instead of the bottom! I know, I know – these were not big fixes, but I’m no expert in WordPress and it’s taken me a while to get the right info at a level that I could understand.

I started this project in October 2025 and had no real thought about the work of gathering and writing 6 or 7 little stories every week for Instagram, and then posting them here as well (both for the non-Instagram users, but also to make sure these stories aren’t lost in the event that Instagram were to decide something I said was offending their community standards and wipe out my whole account).

Because of the extra work of getting them onto the website, I have often left a big lag between when I posted on Instagram and when I got the posts up here. Plain old procrastination. But now that I’ve realized I needed to ditch the little thumbnail photos of everyone on the main page and go with a list instead, life has become much easier. So I hope that I’ll never be more than a few days out of sync from this point on.

Apologies for that time when I didn’t realize that EVERY post I publish was sending an email to the subscribers. I think you got about 15 emails that day! But now when doing multiple posts on the same day, I am unticking a little box that says to send you an email and leaving it ticked only for the very last post, so that you know there’s new content but I’m not spamming you with a thousand notices about that.

Thanks again for bearing with me! I am loving this project, and learning an incredible amount from the people I’m talking to. I’ve now done 229 posts and have more than 11,000 followers on Instagram, which pleases me so much, to imagine all those people meeting some of the resilient souls living homeless and precarious in our communities.

Jody