Writer Joe Blair of Iowa by way of Westford and UMass Lowell and other locales, has a Substack newsletter account like Dick Howe Jr., executive editor and publisher of this blog. Joe’s Substack is called “Parts & Labor” (He a professional HVAC guy–heating, refrigeration, etc.) His new post is as good as it gets for writing about love and romance. Joe is the author of The Iowa Sea, which was published in New York and praised by Oprah. He’s had work in the New York Times and elsewhere. We’ve had his work on this blog before.

Here’s the link to his new piece called “Looking at You.”