Substacks recommended by Bethany A Beeler

Recommended by Bethany A Beeler

Essays by Heather Havrilesky, Ask Polly columnist and author of Foreverland: On the Divine Tedium of Marriage (2022), What If This Were Enough? (2018), How to Be a Person in the World (2016), and Disaster Preparedness (2011)

Sarah Reichert

Mother, Writer, Poet, Advocate. Director at Writing Heights, Award-winning novelist, Writing coach, pit bull rescuer, cat servant, hiker, martial artist

Badreads

By Lauren Hough

Essays, bad jokes, rants, and unsolicited advice from New York Times bestselling author Lauren Hough, and a dog named Woody Guthrie.

Lauren Hough is THE most honest and raw writer alive. It's hard to keep real in this business, but her prose is MAGIK!

- Bethany A Beeler

Charlotte's Web Thoughts

By Charlotte Clymer

Politics, religion, foreign policy, and culture from a Christian trans woman. 2025 Military Reporters & Editors Award for Commentary/Opinion. 2024 NLGJA Award for Excellence in Blogging. 2024 EPPY Award for Best Political/News Blog.

Oh, if we could bottle Charlotte Clymer and put her into the water system of every red state, we might actually transform the world. She's that inspiring!

- Bethany A Beeler

Caravanserai

By Joumana Medlej

An artist lighting her way through dark times by relearning forgotten art practices and natural ways.

The Welsh Kitchen by Ross Clarke

Celebrating the very best of Welsh food and drink. From recipes to music, store cupboard essentials to history, this is food culture from the land of Wales written by food and travel writer Ross Clarke

Life and Other Things Worth Mentioning

By Amy Rivers

Amy Rivers is the award-winning author of six novels, as well as numerous short stories and personal essays. She was recognized as 2021 Indie Author of the Year. Amy was raised in New Mexico and now lives in Colorado with her family.

Erin In The Morning

By Erin Reed

News and discussion on trans legislation and life.

The Art of Enchantment, with Dr Sharon Blackie

New work from the award-winning author and psychologist. A gathering place for lovers of myth, fairy tales and depth psychology, exploring the mysteries of the psyche and reimagining women's stories.

No one more deftly and sensitively explores mythos from the perspective of heroine's journey that Sharon Blackie … because, well, she's LIVING it.

- Bethany A Beeler

Adventures In "Journalism" by Sari Botton

Highlights and lowlights* (*mostly lowlights) from one Gen X lady writer's rather circuitous career path.

Sari is unabashedly authentic and vulnerable in her grappling with the vicissitudes of the writer's life and, well, with the joys and pitfalls of living in general.

- Bethany A Beeler

Anne Byrn: Between the Layers

An honest weekly conversation about life, through the lens of baking and cooking, from the award-winning, best-selling cookbook author.

Blue Tomorrow

By Rob Verchick

Notes on a changing planet

Encore by Helen Conway

On making creativity the focus of a second-half-of-life.

Uncivil Savant

By Caroline Ross

Notes from the way, words from the woods, water from the springs

Every time I read these posts, I grow. I learn. I delight in the magik and surprise that is the cosmos. Thank you!

- Bethany A Beeler

Letters from an American

By Heather Cox Richardson

A newsletter about the history behind today's politics.

Being a reader of Heather Cox Richardson has gotten me through the last seven years and more of political upheaval in America. 100 years from now, her Letters will be required reading to grasp, "Yeah, it was really like that."

- Bethany A Beeler

Divine Lethargy

By Luka Bönisch

Reflections and artwork exploring identity, illusion, and what remains.

Life and Such at Casa de Curls

By Jessica Lemmons

A little bit of parenting, a little bit of chef wife life, a whole lotta Jess being Jess.

Want real life, recounted with honesty, laughter, and badass truth? Jessica is a tremendous soul. Oh, and she should be everyone's mommy. Just sayin'.

- Bethany A Beeler

My personal Substack

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

This is my go-to in the insurrection against Papa Culture. Seriously, I DEPEND on these posts to reassure me that I'm not crazy—I just need a sister like this, regularly sending me hope.

- Bethany A Beeler