"Besties: A Cancer Love Story"

Perspectives on media, writing and content creation -- with some music picks thrown in.

Finding meaning, humor, and happiness after being diagnosed with an incurable disease.

Writer, storyteller, and filmmaker sharing creative sparks, soulful insights, and life lessons to inspire your next chapter. Motivation to create, grow, and thrive.

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

Some thoughts, some laughs, and some feels.

Hey, I'm Matthew Raynor. From deep-sea fishing to art to coding, a diving accident changed my world, but I kept going. Here, I share my journey through resilience, art, and tech. Honest insights from a life that refuses calm waters.

As a 4x survivor of Breast Cancer (2019), Brain Tumor (2021), Brain Cancer (2023), and Thyroid Cancer (2024), I have a lot to share! I combine Eastern and Western approaches that I will share with you!

Thoughts and Reflections (and recipes!) Meant to Bring Comfort in Worrisome Times

Become a better writer in our supportive community, guided by world-class leaders in screenwriting and publishing.

Essays and poetry surrounding topics of love, grief, faith, mental health, and family.

If Iowa had a group chat, this would be it. Hosted by Julie Gammack, this Substack blends independent journalism, lively opinion, and unexpected voices from across the state. Think potluck, but with more insight and fewer Crock-Pots.

Let's give ourselves permission to unapologetically give all our parts a voice to shatter the stigma and shed the shame, so we can find peace, freedom, and healing.

Stay ahead of the curve—with the leading Substack Growth Strategist, Sarah Fay.

For people who want to explore deepening their spirituality through body-based practices.

Grace for Grief shows ways to process loss and grief empowering others to rediscover joy for the future.

As I pack up my childhood home of 52 years, I am unpacking the truths that formed me into the feel-it-all and say-it-all woman I am today.

I'm best known for my viral videos (200M views), daily LIVE morning show on FB and touring show “I Love You, Get Away from Me!”. I write about starting over after 50, divorce and menopause.

This post is for speakers, enrollees or other writers & musicians who are interested in the Okoboji Writers' and Songwriters' Retreat.

All the Awkwardness Plus Book News and Foster Dogs.

Here to explore the inner journey, the creative life and my ancestral home, Scotland. Imagine | Believe | Discover

Linking readers and professional writers who care about Iowa.

Where writing and life meet—stories, reflections, and prompts to help you live more deeply and write more truly.

The Adventuresome Life is a place for people who want to live more intentionally, explore more deeply, and navigate life with curiosity, courage, and an everlasting sense of adventure.

I hit the road for 3 years and 31 days to find more good. (I succeeded!) 50 states. 154 hosts. 43,000 miles. Here are some of my stories.

A new media company built on the ideals that were once the bedrock of American journalism.

Taking a weekly look at what might go right, rather than focusing relentlessly on all that is going wrong.

A blah-blah-blog by Bridget LeRoy, writing notes from the Divine Hallway.

A space for truth-telling, soul-sharing, and real talk.

Writing from the U.S. and from Bramasole, my home in Tuscany, I'll share my ventures out into the world, news from home, good advice, recipes, and links.

Survivor, Advisor, Partner, Mother, Thriver, Writer of upcoming memoir “Buddha on Wall Street”.

Dan Rather's steady take on a complex and chaotic world.

Stories and resources about caregiving, grief, love, and hope (basically, when life doesn't go to plan).

Men as Friends

Seventeen years cancer-free and still learning to live with purpose. Walter, my toy poodle rescue, is loud and unapologetically demanding, but I love him unconditionally. Writing a memoir about my spirited mother. I love books and great TV.

The Jewish Experience

Widowed dad who had to rebuild everything. I will help you start living again by working through your grief and finding your purpose and joy once more.

Author, lover of Chicago history and architecture.

Navigating the cultural, political and economic divides to find We the People.

Musings from a former journalist on life and current events.

Ongoing insights and updates on life and the journey

Weekly essays about bookstores, libraries, and publishing newsletters on Substack. Also the deeply concerning amount of time I spend thinking about why one memoir book sells 12 copies while another becomes a cultural event.

A gathering place for Celtic wisdom, spiritual reflection, and soulful storytelling—rooted in the old ways, but reaching toward the needs of the modern heart.

The Okoboji Writers' Retreat is a tradition started in 2021. Writers of all skill levels come to experience Lake Okoboji for a 2.5 day retreat. Topics range from getting started, memoir, nonfiction, fiction, playwriting, opinion, and now songwriting.

Life. Journalism. Life. Good stories from wherever I find them.

Lara Love Hardin's Substack

Autism, Diversity, and Belonging Across Cultures and Expectations

News and information about the Okoboji Writers' Retreat, September 19, 20, and 21.