Wild Letters: a weekly newsletter about self-exploration and building a right-fit life
Hello, dear reader. I’m so glad you’re here!
I’m Nic Antoinette, and most folks know me as a writer, long-distance hiker, and anti-capitalist tiny biz owner.
I’m also the author of two adventure memoirs: How To Be Alone: an 800-mile hike on the Arizona Trail and What We Owe to Ourselves: a 500-mile hike on the Colorado Trail.
Here at Wild Letters, each week I sit down to write to you by reflecting on the same anchoring question: What am I exploring within myself right now? Whatever emerges as the answer is what I write about, and you can read a selection of my essays for free right here.
In 2025 I’m taking a long-awaited gap year/sabbatical, during which the majority of my business will be closed and everything I create here on Wild Letters will be for paid subscribers only. If you’d like to join me for that I’d love to have you!
SUBSCRIPTION OPTIONS :
$0/month : Occasional public posts (resumes in 2026, after my gap year)
$7/month :
New essays all throughout 2025
Access to the full archive plus the ability to comment, join Discussion Threads, and enter the featured artist giveaways
What’s Working: our monthly curated link round-up and community sharing space
Rose Thorn Bud: our monthly reflections podcast series
How Much Money is Enough? : my personal research project & conversation series
Tiny Biz Letters archie: a year-long monthly column from 2024 that gives you a super transparent behind-the-scenes look at my experience of self-employment (covering earning, expenses, pricing decisions, marketing experiments, goals, wins, failures, and more)
A portion of each month’s paid subscriptions are redistributed to Indigenous Roots Forever Food Access, a tribal community micro-farming program developed by the Indigenous People’s Network of MA and RI, on whose land I live and write.
Consider becoming a paid subscriber right here:
May this little corner of the internet be a place of digital togetherness for us all, a place of curiosity and self-compassion, and a place where we are willing to ask ourselves the most supportive questions (even when those questions are hard, or when we feel like we don't have any answers at all).
More soon—
Nic
