In which I give a not-at-all comprehensive retrospective of my time on YouTube and muse on why I've been doing it for 15 years with no audience.
Read More15 Years on YouTube ✚ Tuesdays with Tish

Tish Black is the author of the fairy tale-inspired short story collection Ebony, Blood, and Snow and a film programmer at IFFO where she hosts the screening series The Gaze.
Tuesdays with Tish
In which I give a not-at-all comprehensive retrospective of my time on YouTube and muse on why I've been doing it for 15 years with no audience.
Read MoreIn which I design window stickers for my car to make it look like a hearse.
Read MoreIn which I add more fake plants and solar-powered lights to my balcony.
Read MoreI did something very adult this week. My biggest adult milestone and probably my last. (Only millionaires can afford mortgages.) I got my first car! Technically, I leased my first ‘compact crossover SUV’.
Read MoreIn which I update my kitchen with contact paper and a socket wrench, and correct my hair colour with colour science.
Read MoreI’m trying to make friends. What an interesting phrase we use for that. I’m not making them from scratch, they’re already there, people, so what I am trying to do is create, or change, my relationship with them into something we’d call a friend.
Read MoreI have a plan! Will I stick to it? Stay tuned!
Read MoreIn which my friend, Nancy, and I catch up, reminisce about how we met, compare Canada and England, talk about growing up, and launch Nancy's YouTuber career.
Read MoreYou don’t get to be jealous of someone getting a job that you didn’t even apply for.
Read MoreThe list of things I can do is much smaller these days, so I gotta pay attention to every small, seemingly inconsequential thing I can do by choice. Gotta focus on the haves, not the have-nots.
Read MoreIn which I cringe at old videos, show you my morning routine, and moderately makeover one wall of my home.
Read MoreNot sure how I feel about being back on YouTube again. Like, am I trying to be a “YouTuber”?
Read MoreThe lesson here is to not just say yes to everything that comes your way; make the choices that lead to where you want to go, even when there’s a risk involved.
Read MoreHow can I separate how I was doing from how I was doing “considering the circumstances”?
Read MoreWe’re on our way out of the dark!
Read MoreAnd hopefully next year there will be another local Nutcracker ballet to go see. But, we all say “hopefully next year” about a lot of things these days...
Read MoreDid I feel like a failure? Yes.
Read MoreSurvival of the fittest.
Read MoreThe Break Up with Your Bullshit challenge is over. I didn’t complete my goal but I got more out of it than just one completed story. The point wasn’t really so much about completing something by Nov. 21, it was about, as the name suggests, breaking up with bullshit excuses to not write and just writing.
Read MoreI had a dream last week that I hugged someone. A big, long, warm hug. It felt so good and I didn’t want to let go. Like, this hug started for you but now I just need this hug to keep going.
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