I really wanted to read the Heather Cox Richardson essay for January 2 which is an entry in her Letters from an American. Unfortunately, it is only available for subscribers and I am thinking that her essays used to be posted every day for anyone to read. I checked out subscribing and this is another case of paying $5.00 a month to read in full every entry with a subset being free. Of course, the cost of $5 isn’t a deal breaker except for the fact that these subscriptions do add up, and pretty soon we’re talking serious money just to read various articles behind firewalls.