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Nov 26, 2024 | 
thesoberglow.substack.com | Rebekah Peppler |Caroline Chambers |Stephanie Danler |Ruth Reichl
A quick note to start - this coming Monday I will be opening up the registration for the next alcohol-free adventure retreat. I can’t believe it’s been nearly five years since the last one. I could not be more excited (or nervous) to be offering this again. I don’t know about you, but I am thrilled to be taking the alcohol-free conversations offline and getting them back into real life around the retreat dinner table. Check out a recap of the past retreats here.
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Jul 1, 2024 | 
kmuw.org | Beth Golay |Sarah Gilmartin |Stephanie Danler |Claire Lombardo
This month’s indie bookseller is Lisa Baudoin, owner of Books & Company in Oconomowoc, Wisconsin. We’ll talk with her about July releases she’s excited about and share our recent reads.
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Mar 11, 2024 | 
writeordie101.substack.com | Courtney Kocak |Zachary Zane |Isaac Fitzgerald |Stephanie Danler
Write or Die 101 is an experiment in affordable education for writers. For $10 per month, you’ll receive a variety of month-long workshops by experienced instructors. This month’s workshop, Launch & Grow a Newsletter to Boost Your Writing Career, is from Courtney Kocak. When you sign up today, your full first month’s membership payment goes to them. Today’s lesson is free. Hello writers!We’re back on our newsletter grind, and today, we’re focusing on the WHAT. What to post, that is.
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Oct 22, 2023 | 
lisaolivera.substack.com | Lisa Olivera |Stephanie Danler
Human Stuff is a weekly-ish newsletter. Please feel free to share parts of this letter that connect with you on social media or send to someone you love. If you enjoy and benefit from my work, I invite you to become a paid subscriber. This is a reader-supported offering and I’m so grateful for your presence here.
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Oct 17, 2023 | 
mattruby.substack.com | Matt Ruby |Stephanie Danler |Sara Campbell
My father was obsessed with air conditioning. Our big job as kids was to blast the AC for at least an hour before he returned from work. That way the living room would be frigid by the time his favorite program, Jeopardy, came on the air. If we failed in this mission, his ire was palpable. I never met someone less chill about keeping things chill. Eventually, it occurred to me that one of the reasons he felt this way was because he had been a tank commander in the Israeli military in the late 1950’s.
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Aug 31, 2023 | 
inews.co.uk | Stephanie Danler
While it is considered polite to ask, no one knows what to say when I tell them how my mother is doing. I’m supposed to say she’s fine. Things are stable. Doing as well as she can be. But those statements don’t reflect the reality. They elide how difficult, emotional, and plain unpleasant it is to care for her. I find it more painful now than ever. When I was 21, my mother had a brain aneurysm that nearly killed her.
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Jun 11, 2023 | 
lisaolivera.substack.com | Lisa Olivera |Stephanie Danler |Elise Loehnen
Human Stuff is a free weekly-ish newsletter. Please feel free to share parts of this newsletter that connect with you on social media or send to someone you love. If you enjoy and benefit from my work, I invite you to become a paid subscriber. This is a reader-supported offering and I’m so grateful for your presence here.
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Apr 12, 2023 | 
smdanler.substack.com | Stephanie Danler
Every Christmas, I try to visit my mother. The visits are short because they are hard. And though we are decades past festivities or more traditional gift giving, I’ll take flowers, pain au chocolats from Tartine, and my two children. The past few years, I’ve left her house with a black and white composition book as my “gift” from her. She cuts out recipes from cooking magazines, then glues them onto the lined pages. There are Mexican, French, Chinese recipes without order.
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Mar 31, 2023 | 
airmail.news | Stephanie Danler
When Susanna Moore gave a eulogy for old friend Joan Didion at her memorial in September, she spoke about some of the maxims Didion had given her. One of them was: “Stop running away.”“Why would she say that?,” I ask the 77-year-old author, a magnetic woman with long silver hair cut by an iconic dark streak, remarkably elegant even over Zoom. “It’s very hard for me to believe in stability. I’m quick to move. Maybe it’s more flattering to say I’m always in movement.
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Mar 3, 2023 | 
smdanler.substack.com | Stephanie Danler
In the year and change since Joan Didion passed away in December 2021, a feeling has regularly come over me that I can only describe as animosity. I noticed it when I taped a podcast with Bret Easton Ellis. Ellis is a well-known Didion fan and a casual expert on her life and milieu. As I drove home from taping, a friend called, who knew I had been nervous, and asked me how it went. As often happens post-interview, I had a terrible vulnerability hangover.
