The Truth About Tigers

When I first set up The Truth About Tigers, it was supposed to be strictly a poetry site. A place to write poems, share them, get feedback, and hopefully get better. Simple enough.

Lately, though, I’ve realized I’ve got stuff scattered everywhere. Substack, Medium, social media, a couple of blogs I’m about to delete, and a handful of random files floating around on my MacBook and in Google Drive. And that’s not counting the more polished political pieces I’ve written for places like The Fulcrum, HuffPost, and The Chaos Section. I’m a very organized person by nature (read: chronic, unmedicated obsessive-compulsive disorder), and it’s getting hard for me to remember where things live. The disorganization is making my brain itch.

So, I’m consolidating. I’m going to start posting some non-poetry pieces here and migrating a few over from other sites. Not the “polished” stuff that gets published elsewhere, but the posts that read more like a traditional blog or a secret-public journal. Think less punditry, more sitting-with-a-cup-of-coffee creative rambling. The more polished political essays I’ve written (and continue to write) will stay where they’re published.

No big plan, no upload schedule, and probably no real need for this post. I just felt like overexplaining the change to keep the OCD demons happy. Thanks for reading.

—Nick