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Recommended by Heidi Zawelevsky

I am a middle-aged woman who is navigating mid-life challenges. I am also a wife, a mother of a teen, a pet mom, a small business owner and a writer in my soul.

Layers of a Creative Life

By Charlene Lutz

Holding space for the layers and journey of living a creative life.

Energy Politics

By Dr. Jennifer I Considine

The future research agenda for energy politics is concerned primarily with the future evolution of the geopolitics of energy in a rapidly changing landscape.

Letters from New England

By J Mooradian

Surviving the traitors with history, safety, humor and strength

Parker McCoy

I enjoy reading and writing crime fiction.

Thousand Yard Stare

By Gordon Skene

Missives, Treatises and Manifestos

Rootsquad Roundup

By Kyla Bayang

A Texas librarian rounding up genealogy fun stuff to further your family history research and help you create a storysharing legacy.

The Vigne Intervention

By Michael Vigne

Existential Technology: climate, environment, energy and information: a systems approach to intervening on the world's most challenging issues.

The Merciless Trade

By Eric S Lipchus of The Merciless Trade

Weekly reports on the Market, Stocks, Bonds, Crypto, and everything trading. I am triangulating the markets, data, and events to streamline the week ahead.

Like People, Like Pets by Cindy Ojczyk

A weekly weaving of stories and resources to strengthen the fibers that bind people and pets.

We Are Speaking

By Keith Owens and Pamela Hilliard Owens

Married couple Keith and Pamela Owens want you to learn about Black History and to read op-eds from a Black perspective. We publish daily Notes and podcast episodes, as well as original Black History articles and op-eds, each twice weekly.

a passionate creation

By onecloud

current events, poetry, essays, and philosophy for the third millennium

Gary Cremeens

Research-driven stories—no wiki rehashes—on History 📜, Baseball ⚾ & Cubs 🐻⚾, Politics (History Reminder Included) 🗳️, Mobility & Transportation 🚇, Public Policy & Sustainability 🌱, Coming-of-Age, Being a Writer ✍️, and Fun Facts 💡.

Consider the Coconut...

By Matthew

From the desk of an autistic 80s nerd

Mortal Beings

By Trevy Thomas

There is freedom in realizing we are living a life no one will remember in a hundred years. Join me. (formerly 'Our Hundred Years')

The East Experience by Jamie East

For women who want to live slower, feel better, and style life beautifully.

Cameras and Canines

By Angela Schneider

A place where dogs, art and unapologetic human–animal connection collide with enough force to shake loose something real.

TIDES OF FURY

By Wil Shade

Tides of Fury is a serialized historical novel set in early 19th-century Maryland, following Penny Rollings and Jack Pyle as they confront slavery, war, and their own convictions.

The Stoic Elder

The Stoic Elder is a newsletter and community where timeless Stoic philosophy meets modern civic urgency. I teach individuals how to live wisely, virtuously, and resiliently—both in their private lives and as citizens in a republic worth preserving.

Richbee

My personal Substack

Gemma’s Substack

By G. Lawrence in the Book Nook

My Author Substack

Escaped from Cultivation

By K. Hamilton

Black Woman, Green World

Calamus Words

By Kevin Schwandt

Substack for Calamus Writing and Editing and other musings of Kevin Schwandt, professor, writer, editor, coach. Visit calamuswriting.com for more.

Dave Loves Movies

By Dave Bongiorno

Movies that matter. Reviews twice a week. In sixty seconds or less.

The Alpha Wave Podcast Newsletter

A newsletter about Bitcoin, Web3, AI, opensource development, cryptocurrency, quantum computing, FinTech, and disruptive innovation. The Alpha Wave Podcast Newsletter is an official media outlet of the Alpha Fund AVA DAO.

Education with Grandma

By Barbara’s education with grandma

Although my work focuses on early childhood, the principles that run throughout develop a foundation for teen years and even beyond. My core message emphasizes the importance of kindness, especially when raising children (with lots of helpful examples).

Sandra’s Health Is Wealth With Frugal Strategies FOR YOU!

By Sandra D

My Personal Mission is to empower persons by sharing ideas and resources to improve well-being. We cook our own food and use label reading and other strategies that have successfully helped us save money. https://buymeacoffee.com/sandra.f Thank You!

Charlotte Dune's Lagoon

Through currents and trends, a novelist swims. With psychedelics and sci-fi-loving fiction author Charlotte Dune.

The Diary of Southern Lifestyle Author Pat Branning

By Patricia A Branning

Stories, history, recipes, and thoughts from the South Carolina Lowcountry, one of the last authentic regions of our Eastern Seaboard. This is where all history begins.

Jim Melvin's Realms of Fantasy

I am a novelist whose main focus is epic and dark fantasy but who also writes a wide range of fiction and nonfiction. Please sign up to receive my free newsletter.

Hannelore Adler Gailwain

Marshmallowy-unicorn-Lady. 🇲🇽 Writing steampunk, fantasy and historical fiction. A veces 🦄✨, otras, un pollito de colores🐣

Flourish: A Newsletter for ADHD Women

By Kristen McClure

A newsletter for ADHD women learning to unmask, regulate, and trust themselves again.

Margaret Reyes Dempsey / Pragmatic Mystic

Searching for Truth while blasting love and remembering to ask "What is this for?"

Threads of Time

By Toniann Astuto

I write about the cycles of nature, folklore, spirituality, and healing—blending myth, magic, and soul wisdom

Patti Smith

The reader is my notebook

Rock star. Rock poet. I’m so happy to reconnect with Patti Smith as an artist right here on Substack. Her interview with Hamish on The Active Voice is outstanding. Patti, thank you for your creativity, candor and compassion. Rock.

- Heidi Zawelevsky

LennArrrt’s Substack

My personal Substack

Bad Catechumen

By Sam Downey-Higgins

The Bad Catechumen writes poems when he should be at church.

Hodgepodge, Connie J. Casella's Substack

By Connie J. Casella

My personal Substack I have been writing since I was a young teen. My subjects were and are The Beatles but I also have written poems on other subjects too. I also have written Christmas poems. If you love The Beatles Christmas, and life, please read!

HYPERPHANTASIA

By Scout Rainer Wiley

A weekly poetry newsletter.

Cagney and Lacey Made Me Gay

By Genevieve_Cecilia

A fan blog for the tv show Cagney & Lacey through a queer perspective.

Woodstock Farm Sanctuary

🐮501(c)(3) Nonprofit Animal Sanctuary 🌱Vegan for the animals, people, planet High Falls, NY ✌️#whywoodstock

Wildlands

By Robin Motzer

A joyful call to collective action, growing a healthier nation through soil care, community connection, and everyday acts of regeneration.

While I Was Drawing

By Emily

A place where imagination wanders and where we follow the pencil line wherever it leads, in celebration of creativity, in reverence for nature, and in search of wonder.

Samo’s Newsletter

By Samo Bohak

Mystical, alchemical musings, also lyrical Berserking

Untamed

By Stephanie Peers

Somatic soul remembrance and ancient wisdom. Sharing essays on capacity, ambition, and embodied leadership | Exploring nervous system wisdom, clarity, and sustainable expansion Learn More Here: https://stephaniepeers.substack.com/about

RetirementRevised

By Retirementrevised.com

Get the latest news and trends on retirement and aging. I focus mostly on personal finance, retirement planning, Social Security and Medicare and health.

Maureen’s Substack

By Maureen C. Morin

I am a storyteller. I am a new widow. I am here to share my story about life after loss, death, grief, and those uncomfortable things no one talks about.

Logan House Publishing

By J.R.

Logan House Publishing. The best fly-by-night self-publishing of Hero and Adventure Fiction. If you want to read a story and forget for a while come to The World of 'We Were Heroes'.

Cheryl Strayed's Dear Sugar

Welcome to Cheryl Strayed's newsletter. Everything is free right now. The paid "Dear Sugar" newsletter is currently on hiatus.

Cheryl Strayed is one of my favorite writers and I’m so happy to find her here on Substack. I’m especially impressed with her writing as a memoirist. Wild is one of my favorite books. She’s a great prose stylist and I love reading every word that she crafts on the page. Thank you, Cheryl for writing from your heart and for your humor. And a special word of praise for Portland!

- Heidi Zawelevsky

Tune My Heart

By Melissa

a record of faith and song + a mix of other things: books I'm reading, things that are resonating with me and/or that I'm learning and thinking about