Substacks recommended by BlackPapers (Bill Black)

Recommended by BlackPapers (Bill Black)

The Muse is In

By jill badonsky

Creativity, humor, and mindfulness.

Dave Barry’s Substack

It's pretty random.

Always LOL content, Dave Barry is a National Treasure when it comes to humor and satire.

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Garrison Keillor and Friends

This newsletter will include observational humor, gratitude, small doses of advice, memories of heroic persons I knew up close, reminiscence about ordinary life back before Twitter and thoughts about American life and other pleasures.

TheSeniorTechie

By Paul Wilczynski

Guiding seniors through technology with clear advice and insights, with practical advice from a senior who truly understands. Ranked #15 Rising in Technology on Substack!

Information about technology for and about seniors, by a senior - great way to keep up with tech info!

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Chessher Cat Productions

By Tim Chessher

Stories that keep us going | A bit of humor | A shot of optimism | Emphasis on a painstaking freedom

The Rebuild Project

A space for people rebuilding their lives after a quiet collapse. Essays, visual notes, and The Rebuild Journals audio series to help you rebuild work, creativity, and life with intention, not quick fixes.

Because we can all use a little rebuilding sometimes!

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Epic Retirement Australia & New Zealand

By Bec Wilson

The secrets to a fulfilling retirement - practical advice, actionable strategies and true stories to help you achieve financial confidence, get healthy and prepare for your epic retirement. Bec Wilson's Aussie/Kiwi newsletter.

The Writer's Almanac with Garrison Keillor

A celebration of poetry and historical interest pieces

The Right Side of 40

By Deborah Heiser

A research-backed guide to turning life after 40 into clarity, relevance, mentorship, and lasting impact.

Everything you want to know about midlife and beyond! Ask a question and Deborah will likely answer in her next post!

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Jack Ohman's You Betcha!

By Jack Ohman’s You Betcha!

Commentary, columns, cartoons, and more...

Ink Made of Sky

By Marie Charon

My personal Substack

We're All Getting Older

By Lou Blaser

Conversations about who we are becoming as we get older.

Mindful News

🫁 A space to pause, breathe, and rise with intention. 📚 We offer mindful practices and structured frameworks. 💹 Cultivate clarity, refine habits, and move with purpose.

Great content for those of us who need a reminder that life is not a drill.

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Bear Grylls Substack

Bear writes about building strength from the inside out. Sharing practical life lessons on resilience, leadership, faith, and business, shaped by real experience in the wild and everyday life, to help you live with greater courage, clarity, and purp

The Mom Society

By Jenn

Welcome to The Mom Society. I'm Jenn, and I've added VP of Snacks and Director of Chaos to my LinkedIn recently. This is a space for moms raising families while building side hustles and businesses for more freedom for themselves and their families.

The Quiet Part Out Loud

THE FUTURE IS OURS TO MAKE

By Chris Richards

Music reccos/rants/prayers/curses by critic and co-listener Chris Richards

Oldster Magazine

By Sari Botton

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

Smart, thoughtful essays on aging, meaning, and life’s later chapters — without treating growing older like a problem to be solved.

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CAFÉ ANNE

By Anne Kadet

It's a wonderful world—meet the inhabitants!

Retirement Media

By JD Rucker

Delivering the news, opinions, tips, and connections retired Americans need. Receive useful updates to make retirement joyful, fruitful, and important.

Living in The 4th Quarter

By Jane Trombley

Living, not just aging, in my 4th quarter. And writing about it.

Smart content about living in the later years of life, shifting the focus from aging to a time of awareness, acceptance, and accommodation.

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I'm Just a Woman's Substack

By Jodie

Female empowerment, building confidence and self love - I'm here to help transform you in to the best version of you. Let's go, girls!

5-Minute Digital Shortcuts

By Silke Kristin Juelich ➔

I’m your go-to person for Substack behind-the-scenes technicals—helping you understand how SEO and AI can work, create professional visuals, and build clear workflows for creators who want to grow their Substack without hype.

The Power of Storytelling’s Substack

The Power of Storytelling is a conference built on the idea that well-crafted stories can bridge divides, heal wounds, inspire action and create change. Since 2011, it has brought to Bucharest more than 80 storytellers from all creative fields.

Really interesting content!

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The Borowitz Report

By Andy Borowitz

Home of Truth

Old Man Talks

Finding clarity in the chaos. A gentle rebellion, where self-honesty matters more than self-help.

Quiet courage. Honest truths. Gentle rebellion.

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How We Grow

By Ana Calin

Fast Cash, Slow Days. Every week I help creators turn "I don't know what to sell" into a clear offer people want to buy. Lazy strategies on positioning, pricing, and launching offers that make you $10-30K on a regular Tuesday.

The Daily RE-Wire

By Monica Hebert

A daily jolt of honesty, humor, and soul alignment from a 70-year-old woman who lost everything twice and rebuilt with nothing but grit, paint, and truth. I write what most people are afraid to say out loud. If you're done performing and ready to become,

The Daily Rewire is a must read for those contemplating Re-wiring instead of retiring!

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Anjeanette Carter

I help solopreneurs build strategic personal brands and land more clients. 💰 7-figure copywriter & agency owner.

Letters from an American

By Heather Cox Richardson

A newsletter about the history behind today's politics.

Exploding Unicorn by James Breakwell

Family comedy one disaster at a time.

50 Not Finished

By Julie Ciardi-50 Not Finished📕

Midlife isn't a crisis, it's a calling ~ join women near or over 50 as we focus on our legacy work using Human Design to amplify our voices on Substack.

Mike Searles - PDFs

Essays and daily cartoons from my world of digital publishing, shared as I build and sell in public.

Paul Krugman

Notes on economics and more

The Retirement Newsletter

By Nick

How am I approaching my retirement? News, stories and tips from a recently retired academic. What could possibly go wrong?

Great variety of info!

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The Paris Diaries

By Rebecca

A newsletter for Francophiles.

A Considerable Age

By Alice Goldbloom

Always searching for a bit of light. Widely authentic stories delivered to your inbox every Sunday morning are my small contribution.

Quietly excellent writing about living, aging, and paying attention — the kind of newsletter you read slowly and think about all day.

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The Dopamine Collective with Kristen Slonicki

A space for self-led women alchemizing life’s challenges into clarity, confidence, and conscious evolution through regulation, release, reset, rebrand, and resonance. Weekly drops to support your becoming.

BETTER DECISIONS, BETTER LIVES

By Bob Lewis

Life gets better when your decisions do.

Person Familiar

By Jim Prosser

Refreshingly real, critical, and useful perspectives and advice on tech comms and media. Written by Jim Prosser, a veteran comms leader at Twitter, SoFi, and Google and founder of Tamalpais Strategies.

George Hahn

Humorist, urbanist, satirist, sartorialist, minimalist, soloist, bicyclist, mid-century modernist on no one’s to-do list.

Words Worth Sharing by Jeanette Martin

By Words Worth Sharing by Jeanette Martin

Refine what you know. Earn what you’re worth. For accomplished women ready to articulate their authority clearly enough to build aligned income around it. I

Jeff Jackson

Great content with a bias toward funny!

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Slow Boring

By Matthew Yglesias

Start your day with pragmatic takes on politics and public policy.

Petal + Hearth

By Olivia

Stories, guides, and rituals from an American living in France. Here to help you romanticize the everyday and step into your 💫 main character energy 💫

Olivia Wickstrom is an American living in France - the artwork and posts will make you want to live there too!

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Athletic Aging

By ATHLETIC AGING by Carla DiGirolamo

Your Playbook for Defying the Status Quo

Great information to get you moving!

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also... from EMMASTHING

By Emma Golden Miller

Serious and unserious thoughts and feelings on life as I know it.

Civic Capacity

By William Lutz

Through thoughtful discourse and analysis we are engaging people in ideas about what is happening in Troy, Ohio and surrounding communities with the goal of growing civic capacity.

The Gene Pool

By gene weingarten

Humor. Outrageous discussions, surprising observations, live chats, polls, and the weekly Invitational humor contest (formerly The Washington Post's Style Invitational). Significant misanthropy tempered by a warm heart.

Strong After 50

Strength, cardio, and real-world fitness for men and women over 50