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Recommended by Beth Robinson

Welcome to a place to grow YOU! Matthew Ferrara's stories and life lessons for personal and career growth, and living the good life. Optimistic nourishment. Helpful insights. Good News Friday. Plus insights from 30+ years in real estate. Join the journey.

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

- Beth Robinson

How To Be Old

By Lyn Slater

Essays and Dispatches From My Shed by Lyn Slater

Poetry Today

By Maya C. Popa

deepening your practice of poetry, mindset, and wonder

The Granny Who Stands on her Head

By Ann Richardson

my thoughts about living and dying and everything in-between

Bitchen

By Jenn Rice

All the kitchen banter you never knew you cared about.

Shangrilogs

By Kelton Wright

High altitude relocation, recreation, and renovation 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

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 about creating a new life after 50, after marriage, after kids, and after publishing. So sick of learning and growing I could barf. Making you think, cry, laugh, and feel. Read me, won’t you?

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