Substacks recommended by Susie Kaufman

Recommended by Susie Kaufman

Life Sentences

By Bryan Demchinsky

Personal Essays

MOTHER LAND

By Alice Switocz Goldbloom

A Memoir. A Journey. A History. A chapter delivered to your inbox every Saturday morning.

Advantages of Age

By Suzanne Noble

We are a social enterprise (not for profit). Creating a safe space to discuss all matters relating to ageing...gracefully or disgracefully! It's our choice. That's the point.

Wordy Bird

By Susan Orlean

A few thoughts on what I'm wearing, words I'm writing, and the world we wander.

Whales, Ancestors, the Novel, the Memoir, and Me

By Mary Kate Jordan

My personal Substack

Mary Kate Jordan has an expansive view of the universe and a deep willingness to share it. You will be changed by reading her words.

- Susie Kaufman

Reflections at 85

By Rachael Freed: Reflections

Explore "Reflections at 85." Breaking the barriers of shame, fear, and anger that keep us from considering the many dimensions of aging: for us and as a precious legacy for the generations to come.

Out in the Garden

By Judith Fetterley

"Out in the Garden" is a bi-weekly newsletter describing how my adventures with plants keeps me keen and vital. I shares nature's "news" with humor, but I also aim to provoke reflection on the complicated interconnections between plants and people.

Hello Beautifuls

By Jocelyn Lovelle

Writing at the intersection of trauma recovery, compassion and love. Humaning is beautiful and devastating and more love is always the answer, even when we can't see it.

Hello Beautifuls understands the importance of stopping, resting, allowing. Important stuff.

- Susie Kaufman

Ordinary Talk

By Nandi Rose

Making sense of it all through art, nature, and a whole lot of metaphors.

The Pragmatic Mystic

By Addison Hodges Hart

The Substack page of Addison Hodges Hart. A page primarily - but not exclusively - focused on the interior life and ascetical theology of the Christian Tradition.

Travels with Sizzle

By Debby Mayer

Not a sweet dog story

Out of the Blue

By Mari Andrew

By writer and artist Mari Andrew, exploring life's full range of colors

Delightful and insightful

- Susie Kaufman

Orwell Daily

By George Orwell

Emails from Orwell

Beyond the Comfort Zone with Renée Eli, Ph.D.

By Renée Eli – Beyond the Comfort Zone

Complex times usher us beyond comfort to the depths of human becoming. These letters are meditative essays devoted to the unfolding of us.

Everything is Personal

By Laurie Stone

The story is not about what happened, it's about what the narrator makes of what happened.

Poetry Unbound

By Pádraig Ó Tuama

Open your world with poetry

The Unspeakable with Meghan Daum

Home of The Unspeakable Podcast. Plus new writing and updates from Meghan Daum.

The Orwell Foundation

News and insights from the UK's most prestigious prizes for political writing, plus new features on Orwell's life, work and legacy.

Stillness in the West

By Jack Leahy

Thoughts on the contemplative life at the end of the Human Age. "Acquire the Spirit of Peace and a thousand souls around you will be saved.” --St. Seraphim of Sarov.

Beautifully rendered critique of our collective predicament. This writer has an expanded vision of human struggle.

- Susie Kaufman

Life and Limb

By Edwin Leap

This Substack is an outgrowth of my decades of writing for newspapers, newsletters and (mostly medical) magazines.

A Considerable Age

By Alice Goldbloom

Widely authentic stories delivered to you every Sunday morning.

A Considerable Age is literate and features a wide variety of writing. Highly recommended.

- Susie Kaufman

Out of It

By Mary Gaitskill

Notes from outside the consternation machine

Age with Attitude!

By Robyn Everingham

In my quest for a long, well-lived life, longevity science collides with real life. Follow my personal triumphs and trials as I navigate this adventure.

Oldster Magazine

By Sari Botton

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

Elderberries

By Avivah Wittenberg-Cox

Squeezing the juice from longer lives and careers. And sharing the lessons.

Walking the Inspired Path

By Elizabeth Brownrigg

How can we engage joyfully with the difficult world?

Great writing, mindful subject matter

- Susie Kaufman

Non-Boring History

By Annette Laing

Join renegade historian and Brit in the US Dr. Annette Laing on her witty history mystery tour. Substack Featured Newsletter.

Mostly Useful

By Joel Tefft

Musings on life, spirituality, and how to be as useful as possible.

Very concise and definitely useful text

- Susie Kaufman

The EndGame

By Don Akchin

Aging with purpose and joy. The EndGame is an inquisitive, empathetic, and humorous exploration of all aspects of age, for those who are not ready to fade away.

TheEndGame collates all sorts of info pertinent to aging, digests it and presents it to the reader. You find out what you need to know without having to go through all the trouble of doing your own research.

- Susie Kaufman

Finding Home

By Jan Peppler

Insights to finding home & creating home from a home researcher who has lived in many places. Using psychology, myth, popular culture, religion, the hero's journey, and more.

NOW IS GOOD

By James Francis

an ongoing meditation on awareness, individual realities and communal expansion

Life is a Sacred Text

By Rabbi Danya Ruttenberg

Space to say true things, with ancient stories serving as mirrors and lights. Now living at LifeIsASacredText.com 🌱

Letters from an American

By Heather Cox Richardson

A newsletter about the history behind today's politics.

Personal Papers

By Carol Sill

Writing from the intersection of imagination and reality. Reflections, ideas and commentary. Hand written. Manually curated.

Personal Papers covers a wide variety of intriguing subjects in an open-hearted, cultivated style.

- Susie Kaufman

Griefbacon

By Helena Fitzgerald

sitting on the floor at 3am at the party after everybody else has gone home.

Excellent writing. Insightful subject matter. Helena Fitzgerald is glitteringly self-aware.

- Susie Kaufman

seventysomething

Recommended by Susie Kaufman