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[B]old Age

[B]old Age

USA

[B]old Age is Debbie Weil’s Substack newsletter on living boldly in your 60s, 70s, and beyond. Weil — a writer and former corporate communications consultant…
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4-Quarter Lives / Elderberries

4-Quarter Lives / Elderberries

USA

Avivah Wittenberg-Cox writes about navigating the second half of life with intention and strategy. Her Substack explores gender, leadership, and the distinctive opportunities that come…
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A Considerable Age

A Considerable Age

USA

A Considerable Age is Alice Goldbloom’s Substack exploring life in one’s sixties and beyond with wit, honesty, and grace. Goldbloom writes about the joys and…
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A New Kind of Old

A New Kind of Old

Veteran broadcaster and producer Phyllis Haynes (Haynes Media Works, Profonde.TV) writes “The Chronicles of the Crone Wars” — a playful serialized fiction in which a…
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Advantages of Age

Advantages of Age

United Kingdom

Advantages of Age is a UK-based Substack and social enterprise co-founded by two women over 50 who bill themselves as “the punks of getting older.”…
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Age Out Loud

Age Out Loud

USA

Age Out Loud is Margo Arrowsmith’s Substack newsletter celebrating aging as a time of power and possibility. Arrowsmith writes about reclaiming confidence, navigating cultural ageism,…
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Ageful Living

Ageful Living

Jeanette Leardi’s blog on ageful living: provocative, hopeful essays that dismantle ageist myths and reframe later life as a time of growth, purpose, and possibility,…
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Aging Well Network

USA

Research-based resources on healthy aging, cognitive health, nutrition, exercise, and the social determinants of wellbeing in later life — drawing on academic research translated into…
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AgingCare

USA

A community and resource hub for family caregivers — covering dementia, elder care decisions, caregiver burnout, legal and financial planning, and the emotional toll of…
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Author-Come-Lately

Author-Come-Lately

USA

Author-Come-Lately is Kisane Slaney’s Substack for women who begin writing later in life. Slaney writes about the creative process, late-blooming authorship, and the particular freedom…
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Better After 50

USA

Felice Shapiro’s site for women over 50 features articles on health, beauty, relationships, career reinvention, finance, and the full spectrum of midlife experience — with…
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Creative Crones with Stella Fosse

Creative Crones with Stella Fosse

USA

Creative Crones is Stella Fosse’s Substack newsletter celebrating older women’s creativity and reclaiming the word crone as a title of power. Fosse — author of…
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Crow’s Feet: Life as We Age

Crow’s Feet: Life as We Age

USA

Crow’s Feet is a collaborative Substack publication curated by Nancy Peckenham featuring essays, stories, and reflections on aging from writers of all backgrounds. One of…
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CrunchyTales

CrunchyTales

International

CrunchyTales is an illustrated online magazine for women 40+, founded by lifestyle journalist Michela Di Carlo. It covers style, travel, culture, and midlife living with…
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Embracing Aging

Embracing Aging

United Kingdom

Embracing Aging is Jane Duncan Rogers’s Substack exploring death, dying, grief, and the art of aging well. Rogers — a Scottish coach and end-of-life specialist…
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Fab After Fifty

UK

UK lifestyle blog for women over 50 covering fashion, beauty, travel, health, and inspiring stories of women thriving in midlife — with the core message…
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Flourish After 50

Flourish After 50

Australia

Sue Loncaric writes about vitality, fitness, travel, and living purposefully in the second half of life for women over 50, based in Australia but with…
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Gateway Elderwomen

Gateway Elderwomen

Jody Day, founder of Gateway Women, writes about elderhood without motherhood: what ageing looks like for women who are childless not by choice, and how…
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Glorious Broads

Glorious Broads

USA

Glorious Broads is Maryjane Fahey’s Substack celebrating older women in all their complexity — aging bodies, beauty, boldness, and beyond. Fahey, a creative director and…
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Granny Who Stands on Her Head

Granny Who Stands on Her Head

United Kingdom

Granny Who Stands on Her Head is Ann Richardson’s Substack on finding vitality and humor in old age. Richardson, a British writer and gerontologist, writes…
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Hallelujah Anyway

Hallelujah Anyway

USA

Hallelujah Anyway is Anne Lamott’s Substack — a place for her signature blend of spiritual reflection, raw honesty, and humor. Lamott writes about faith, family,…
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HotFlashesXOXO

HotFlashesXOXO

USA

HotFlashesXOXO is Susan Kuchinskas’s Substack covering menopause, hormones, sex, and aging with scientific rigor and personal honesty. Kuchinskas writes for women navigating perimenopause and menopause…
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Jack’s Smack

Jack’s Smack

USA

Jack’s Smack is Jaqueline Perez’s Substack on midlife, reinvention, and living unapologetically as a Latina woman over 50. Perez writes with candor and humor about…
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Kris Keppeler Talks

Kris Keppeler Talks

USA

Kris Keppeler Talks is Kris Keppeler’s Substack exploring creativity, reinvention, and meaning-making in midlife and beyond. Keppeler writes about pivoting professionally and personally after 50,…
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