View online • Get this from a friend? Subscribe here! Shenanigating Since 2000 | 2026 Issue #05 🐅 "Jailbreak" by Jason Kotecki. Oil on canvas. 🖼️ Original and Prints available! Happy Sunday, Reader! Greetings from Sheboygan, where we just dropped the world premiere of a new video about our speaking programs! Check it out here. (It's a career-long culmination of the very thing I'm talking about this week.) Remember paint-by-numbers? You know, the beloved craft project in which an image is...
8 days ago • 6 min read
View online • Get this from a friend? Subscribe here! Shenanigating Since 2000 | 2026 Issue #04 🍯 "Doing Nothing" by Jason Kotecki. Oil on canvas. Happy Sunday, Reader! Greetings from Sheboygan, where we just hosted our first Open Studio! You can watch the replay here, and don't miss the super cool things we have on auction (which ends on Monday at 7:45 pm CT.) Doing nothing isn’t really doing nothing. New parents (and parents-to-be) get lots of advice. Among the wellspring of wisdom are tips...
15 days ago • 5 min read
View online • Get this from a friend? Subscribe here! Shenanigating Since 2000 | 2026 Issue #03 ⛷️ "Here Goes Something" by Jason Kotecki. Oil on canvas. Prints available. Happy Sunday, Reader! Greetings from Sheboygan, where I am looking forward to opening my studio for you (virtually speaking) this Friday night. More on that below, but first... The Winter Olympics are broken. My family has been looking forward to them. We love the pageantry, the drama, and the vignettes about the athletes’...
22 days ago • 3 min read
View online • Get this from a friend? Subscribe here! Shenanigating Since 2000 | 2026 Issue #03 🎨 Happy Sunday, Reader! Greetings from Sheboygan, where I am excited to show you the first episode of a new video series from my studio overlooking Lake Michigan. This is Echo Base Dispatch—a brief transmission from here to wherever you are—where I share what I’m working on, what I’m wrestling with, and the lessons I’m learning along the way. (Click the video above to watch it, or keep reading for...
29 days ago • 5 min read
View online • Get this from a friend? Subscribe here! Shenanigating Since 2000 | Special Issue 🌟 Hello, Reader! Have you ever had a dream in your heart? Did it come true, or crash and burn? Maybe it feels stuck in neutral, or perhaps life’s been so busy your dream is missing in action… Wherever you find yourself, we invite you to join us for a LIVE Flying Lessons Workshop THIS Saturday, January 24, 2026, from 10:00 am – noon CT. We’ll be using Jason’s children’s book, The Penguin Who Flew, as...
about 1 month ago • 1 min read
View online • Get this from a friend? Subscribe here! Shenanigating Since 2000 | 2026 Issue #02 🍰 Artwork from "The Penguin Who Flew" by Jason Kotecki. Happy Sunday, Reader! Greetings from Sheboygan, where I am publishing this newsletter in tribute to a mentor who taught me that freedom from embarrassment is a superpower. Here's me tying on my cape... Every book has a typo. I don't care how prestigious the publisher, how persnickety the author, or how many editors looked it over; there will...
about 1 month ago • 6 min read
View online • Get this from a friend? Subscribe here! Shenanigating Since 2000 | 2026 Issue #01 🤍 Photograph by Kim Kotecki. Happy Sunday, Reader! Welcome to the evolution of this newsletter, now simply titled The Adultitis Fighter. I've been writing it in one form or another for about 25 years! The earliest version I could find on my computer was from February 8, 2002, with a note proudly declaring "298 members and counting..." We've grown quite a bit since then, and although it still...
about 1 month ago • 4 min read
View online • Get this from a friend? Subscribe here! Shenanigating Since 2000 | Special Issue 🌟 Happy New Year, Reader! Have you ever had a dream in your heart? Did it come true, or crash and burn? Maybe it feels stuck in neutral, or perhaps life’s been so busy your dream is missing in action… Wherever you find yourself, we invite you to join us for a LIVE Flying Lessons Workshop on Saturday, January 24, 2026, from 10:00 am – noon CT. We’ll be using Jason’s children’s book, The Penguin Who...
about 2 months ago • 1 min read
View this online • Get this from a friend? Subscribe here! 2025 Issue #51 🧮 Happy Sunday, Reader! Greetings from Sheboygan, where this will be the final newsletter of 2025. The "Adultitis Fighter Insider" will re-emerge in January as simply "The Adultitis Fighter," with a slightly new look and format. Until then, I hope you and yours have a very merry Christmas, a happy Hanukkah, and a happy New Year! Many Januarys ago, as the ho ho hos of the holiday season abruptly transitioned to the ho ho...
2 months ago • 3 min read