diff --git a/src/garden/journal b/src/garden/journal
index 95f85ea..170fb44 160000
--- a/src/garden/journal
+++ b/src/garden/journal
@@ -1 +1 @@
-Subproject commit 95f85eaa95c875d2aa7897c0120f72bf31ade907
+Subproject commit 170fb442a8c4a0c06b47e28821ab5fb475e35be1
diff --git a/src/garden/journal.py b/src/garden/journal.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..8386d36
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/garden/journal.py
@@ -0,0 +1,30 @@
+#!/usr/bin/env python
+
+import sys
+import os
+
+import md2html
+
+def print_usage():
+    print(f"usage: python {sys.argv[0]} PATHS")
+    print("")
+    print("\t\PATHS\tpaths of input markdown files")
+
+
+if len(sys.argv) < 2:
+    print_usage()
+    exit(1)
+
+# we don't want to publish *everything* in the journal, so for now let's just
+# hardcode the files we want.
+files = sys.argv[1:]
+
+# TODO: copy images
+# TODO: separate md fromm images
+
+for f in files:
+    md2html.write_html(f)
+    html_path = f.replace(".md", ".html")
+    print(html_path)
+
+