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One of my “must open” emails each day.
honeyletter has become one of my “must open” emails each day. Five genuinely good and interesting stories cut through the nonstop negativity and leave me feeling better after reading them.
I look forward to reading the “news” every morning.
I will open my morning with coffee and good news.
I decided I will open my morning with coffee and good news. I truly appreciate the service.
Three stories from recent letters. Five like these land in inboxes Mon–Fri at 7am ET.
Seventy-seven years ago, Maybelle Blair pitched in the All-American Girls Professional Baseball League — the league that inspired A League of Their Own. This month, at 99, she walked to the mound and threw out the first pitch of the new women's professional baseball league's opening game. She'd waited most of a century to see the game come back.
“Nothing was going to stop me from being here.” — Maybelle Blair, 99
A Cape Cod teenager spent his high-school years working the counter at his local Wendy's. What he didn't know: the couple who ran the place had been setting money aside the whole time, planning to pay for his college. They never said a word — until Yale accepted him on a full scholarship, and they finally told him what they'd been saving for.
When a piano tuner came into an inheritance, he spent $15,000 of it on a grand piano — for a nine-year-old pianist he had never met. Delivered, tuned, and hers.
Five stories. Maybe 700 words total. Short enough to read between meetings or over coffee, warm enough to actually land.
Most good-news sites scrape headlines and slap them into listicles. honeyletter is read, picked, and edited by a human. The saccharine ones get killed, only the stories that would actually move a tired person at 7am make it in.
The world has plenty of bad news. honeyletter doesn't add to it. No politics, no tragedy bait, no "you won't believe what happened next." Just five stories from seven kinds of good — Kindness, Medicine, Motivational, Nature, Delight, Science, Progress — read in full and chosen by editorial judgement, not engagement metrics.
I'm tired. The news is bad and I keep reading it anyway, which is how I learned the word “doomscroll” applied to me too.
I'd had this idea since 2022. A letter that wasn't doom. Five small things from the world, not bad ones. I thought about it constantly and never actually built it.
Then one morning my daughter was asleep on my chest at 5am and I was scrolling, and I'd had enough. I put the phone down and thought to myself, what can I do?
A few weeks later, honeyletter started arriving in inboxes. Five stories every weekday. Curated, edited, and shipped by me personally.
Glad you're here.
Only good news. Five short stories about kind, hopeful, quietly remarkable things happening in the world. Never politics, never tragedy, never "here's what's wrong." About 700 words total — three minutes of reading, the kind you can finish before the kettle boils.
7am ET, Monday through Friday. Weekends are yours.
Most are aggregators: headlines scraped into a digest. honeyletter is read in full and edited by a human who kills anything saccharine, anything that doesn't feel right, anything that wouldn't land on a depleted reader at 7am. It's slower, shorter, and made for anyone tired of doomscrolling.
No. It arrives at 7am ET. But it lives in your inbox, so whenever you reach for your phone in the small hours, yesterday's letter is right there.
Please do. Good stories are meant to be passed along.
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