About us
A dad between jobs, a daughter with a pencil, and one honest conversation a week.
Bella
The one with the doodles
Bella is eleven. She draws on everything — homework margins, napkins, the backs of receipts — so every conversation here ends with a doodle instead of a tidy answer. She runs her own little book club, she's happiest near horses, and she has full veto power over this whole project: any question she doesn't want to answer, she doesn't. That's the deal, and it's never up for debate.
Dad
The okayest one
I'm Bella's dad. This started during a stretch when I was out of work — a season I could have hidden from her, or talked about honestly. I picked honest. These conversations are me trying to show that you can be unsure, between jobs, still figuring it out, and still be a parent worth listening to. I ask the questions. She keeps me humble.
✎ These bios are a first draft I wrote from the show's premise — edit them freely, especially the specifics, so they sound like you.
Why we’re doing it this way
This was going to be a video show. We were going to film it, chase a following, maybe open a little merch store. Then we thought harder about the world we’re raising a kid in, and we stopped.
Somewhere along the way, social media stopped being about connecting people. It became an algorithm deciding who gets seen, a scoreboard of likes and clicks and followers, and a steady pressure to perform for whoever might sponsor you. We didn’t want our conversations bent into that shape. Bella never has to say a thing for the camera, go viral, or read what a stranger thinks of her. She can pass on any question, any time.
So this is the opposite of all that. No algorithm. No comments. No follower count. Nothing to buy. We share the words and the doodles, and we keep the faces. It’s a record for us first, and then for anyone who wants to sit with it.
In a time when so much online is AI slop and feeds built to hold your eyes, we wanted something organic and a little old fashioned. Something you slow down and actually read, with nothing flashing at you. Just a dad, his daughter, and one honest conversation a week, the kind of thing we’d be glad to read together in ten years.