Substacks recommended by Rambling Reflections

Recommended by Rambling Reflections

For authors and creative leaders who want to publish on Substack from their own intelligence — not borrowed formulas. Strategic guidance that integrates data, intuition and deep respect for how creative people actually work.

Drinks With Broads

By Heather Cocks & Jessica Morgan

A Pop Culture Cocktail Served by the Fug Girls

Memoir Land

By Memoir Monday

Four verticals edited by Sari Botton: MEMOIR MONDAY, collab w/ Granta, Narratively, The Rumpus, Orion, The Walrus, Electric Lit, LitHub, Oldster; FIRST PERSON SINGULAR original essays; THE LIT LAB interviews + craft; GOODBYE TO ALL THAT, NYC stories.

Can we read?

By Sarah Miller

Your weekly guide to children's books, raising readers, and how to build a culture of reading in your home.

Midstory Magazine

By Jessica Smock

A home for writing by women about life, love, and loss at midlife, from the editors of the HerStories Project.

I’m Walking Here

By Liz Gumbinner

Culture, media, politics and parenting. Oh, did someone say pick a lane? Adorable.

In Pursuit of Clean Countertops

By Sara Petersen

Calling bullshit on America’s love affair with Perfect Mamas

Sara Louise Petersen talks about performative motherhood in her hilarious, insightful way. She interviews other mothers, and she values invisible labor and stay at home motherhood. Her work is important for women to feel valued and seen in their roles of wife and mother and finding their identity beyond those limitations.

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Weight and Healthcare

By Ragen Chastain

Examining weight science, weight stigma, and what evidence, ethics, and lived experience teach us about best healthcare practices and public health for higher weight people.

I Write Hard Things

By Karen Wesley

I share stories of grief, healing, and resilience from the perspective of a black woman in midlife. With humor and honesty, I explore the complexity of motherhood, marriage, parenting, autism, mental health, creativity, self-discovery, and black culture.

Over the Influence

By Jo Piazza

A hilarious and often factual romp through motherhood, the world of social media, old-school media, publishing and whatever else catches our fancy.

TCF Emails

By Tracy Clark-Flory

A newsletter on sex, pop culture, and feminism.

Evil Witches Newsletter

By Claire Zulkey

We are people who happen to be mothers.

coffee + tattoos + therapy

By Crystal Britt

a little messy, a whole lot of information you didn't know you needed to know

Big Undies

By Corinne Fay

A newsletter about clothes.

🌼 dialoguing

By kaitlyn

Zero hot takes. Perhaps I can interest you in some nuance and vulnerability instead?

Culture Study

By Anne Helen Petersen

Think more about the culture that surrounds you

Mad Woman

By Amanda Montei

Feminist takes on literature and culture.

I have LOVED the series this week about the language of dating shows. The cultural conversation and how our own thinking is shaped by the shows we consume and books we read to form our notions of romantic love has been fascinating. Touched Out is a groundbreaking book as well, and I found Amanda Montei through her press tour for her book.

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Gilmore Women

By Maggie Mertens

Two journalists discuss everything that’s wrong with every episode of “Gilmore Girls” & why we still love it

Midstack

By Jessica Smock

A membership community for midlife women who want to write, connect, and grow on Substack, from the editors of Midstory Magazine.

The Mindful Librarian

By Katy O.

Join me while I read and muse my way through midlife in Wisconsin ~ book recommendations, comments on the reading life, and roundups of things I love. This newsletter has now moved, and subscribing here means you will be migrated to the new platform.

Men Yell at Me

By lyz

Written from a journalist in a red state, this newsletter is personal, political, sometimes funny and always raises hell.

For This Child We Have Prayed

By Laura

For This Child We Have Prayed includes musings on infertility, parenting my daughter, and an exploration of family relationships.

Laura has many powerful reflections on her infertility journey and long path to motherhood.

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Let's Start a Family - a Family Positivity Newsletter

By Julia Karol

Having the family you want is a radical act. Written from a Solo Mom By Choice & cheerleader for alternative families. Let's talk fertility, divorce, dating, parenting, solo parenting, adoption, fostering, childfree & more

I enjoy the discussion of alternative family structures compared to the nuclear family- there are so many ways to make families and I appreciate Julia writhing about all these different paths to get there.

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Burnt Toast by Virginia Sole-Smith

Your body liberation community. And good snacks.