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Recommended by Beth Robinson

Matthew Ferrara's inspiring stories, lessons and photos from over 33 years of speaking, coaching and global travels. Good News Fridays, webinars, sales tips and personal growth insights. Start the journey to your best self here!

Matthew Ferrara has been inspiring me for years and now he is on Substack

- Beth Robinson

Poetry Today

By Maya C. Popa

Weekly poetry curations & literary lessons designed to transform your writing life

The Granny Who Stands on her Head

By Ann Richardson

After a lifetime of reflection, I write short posts with a touch of gentle humour. Yes, I write on being old, but life is too full to be limited to one small part.

Bitchen

By Jenn Rice

All the kitchen banter you never knew you cared about.

Shangrilogs

By Kelton Wright

High altitude and high hopes in a town of 180 people (and 51 dogs.)

I grew up in Colorado and high mountain places are my happy places. And I live at the end of the road on a remote island. That's why.

- Beth Robinson

Oldster Magazine

By Sari Botton

Exploring what it means to travel through time in a human body, at every phase of life.

PASSAGES: Travel the USA and more!

By Toby Neal

Travel in changing times: stories on camping and life from a professional novelist on the move.

Fellow traveler with a shared Hawai'i perspective. Also recommend her novels and first memoir if you want to understand what it's really like to live in Hawai'i!

- Beth Robinson

Sherman Alexie

poems, short fiction, essays, opinion, audio, video

The Isolation Journals with Suleika Jaouad

A newsletter for people seeking to transform life's interruptions into creative grist

How Not to F*ck Up Your Face

By Val Monroe

philosophical and practical advice for anyone who's ever looked into a mirror

The Vajenda

By Dr. Jen Gunter

Imagine a Venn diagram with overlapping circles labeled: Medical Facts, Feminism, and Fire. You've arrived at their intersection.

My Sweet Dumb Brain

By Katie Hawkins-Gaar

A newsletter about facing life's ups and downs, all while being kind to yourself.

Another writer who could be my daughter. Reminding me to be gentle with myself.

- Beth Robinson

An Irritable Métis

By Chris La Tray

Email newsletter from Chris La Tray, member of the Little Shell Tribe of Chippewa Indians, author of "Becoming Little Shell" from Milkweed Editions (8/20/2024), and 2023–2025 Montana Poet Laureate.

If you find the threads in my memoir about indigenous friends and thinking of interest, you could not to better than Chris La Tray to get the real deal. Most of my native American and native Hawaiian friends often have irritable things to say. And those are the things worth listening to.

- Beth Robinson

HONEY STAY SUPER

By Kimberly Harrington

A newsletter that's pro-Big-Life-Changes. Creating a new life after 50, after marriage, after kids, after publishing, and after moving 11,000 times. So sick of learning and growing I could barf. Making you think, laugh, and feel. Sorry.

This memoir is anchored in transitions and how I navigated them. It's always messy. Honey Stay Super makes me laugh out loud and cry sometimes.

- Beth Robinson

Culture Study

By Anne Helen Petersen

Think more about the culture that surrounds you

Anne Helen Peterson is the reason I found Substack. I was looking for writers I could read to understand what i needed to learn from millennials. What I found was all that plus an incredible community built from trust and smart prompts.

- Beth Robinson