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One week left of our 4 week sprint through “The Artist’s Way.” This go round, Julia went hard on some parties I wasn’t certain deserved it — academics, perfectionists — and got at how our fear flings out excuses for why we can’t be the creative we want to be. open.substack.com/pub/mindahon...

How’s that creative recovery going? Here’s the week 2 drop of the sped up guide to “The Artist’s Way.” open.substack.com/pub/mindahon...

It’s so nice when people appreciate what you do 😭 Read the first installment of the guide on my Substack and the next one drops Wednesday — open.substack.com/pub/mindahon...

Most people don’t finish “The Artist’s Way” because 12 weeks is a lot! So let’s speed it up! Starting next week, I’m dropping my 4-week guide to “The Artist’s Way.” Finally finish it faster, with friends 🫱🏽‍🫲🏿 Get all the details here — open.substack.com/pub/mindahon...

✨Zine artist reveal!✨ Minda Honey is the author of The Heartbreak Years. She writes a newsletter about being mid(life) on Substack. Follow her at @mindahoney.bsky.social and don’t miss her zine, “Thoughts Liberated from My Notes* App,” in the Summer ‘25 Edit, dropping this week!

The return of skinny supremacy has me thinking a lot about the summer after high school I spent as a weight loss counselor. Obvs allll the warnings for diet culture, eating disorders and fatphobia — because how else do you describe a workplace that weighed you twice a week? Mindahoney.substack.com.

New Craft of Memoir at @niemanstoryboard.org: @mindahoney.bsky.social in conversation with Irvin Weathersby Jr. about truth-telling in a travelogue. niemanstoryboard.org/2025/07/02/c... #longreads #booksky #writing #storytelling

"That's what the book’s about in general. How can I situate myself within these current moments but also within the timeline of history?" Irvin Weathersby Jr., in conversation with @mindahoney.bsky.social niemanstoryboard.org/2025/07/02/c... #booksky #writing #memoir

My Friday newsletter for @niemanstoryboard.org: Featuring @nadiareiman.bsky.social on reporting for @thisamericanlife.org, @mindahoney.bsky.social in conversation with Irvin Weathersby Jr., plus @leahsottile.bsky.social, @hoinski.bsky.social, and more... niemanstoryboard.org/2025/07/04/d...

I think at this point, nearly three decades in, that we’ve established that the mission is entirely possible.

In honor of the news that the medical field will be finally recognizing it hurts when jam things into and snip of pieces of our cervixes — an IUD tale 🩸 open.substack.com/pub/mindahon...

Seems a like a good time to re-share this piece from 2018 that I wrote after discovering there would be a “soul cleanse” yoga festival at a local plantation — www.leoweekly.com/news/the-pla...

My mind was happily blown by the amazing panels of writers + editors at #OpenSecretsLive. I wanted to buy EVERYONE’S book - I got Minda Honey’s “The Heartbreak Years” + Kari Ferrell’s “You’ll Never Believe Me” 🤩 Rachel Kramer Bussel created a lovely, impactful event! @opensecretsmag.bsky.social

It’s spring, so the sidewalk pests are out! Here’s a little drag for the men who disrupt my peace and the alarming belief that women should tolerate a man’s disrespect if he makes enough money. open.substack.com/pub/mindahon...

The same day I dropped a newsletter about my first mammogram (and subsequent follow up for what were ultimately, thankfully benign issues) I got hit with the $1,000 bill. Yay, America!! open.substack.com/pub/mindahon...

Our Open Secrets Live May 3 closing conversation will be between @mindahoney.bsky.social and @deeshaphilyaw.bsky.social on Relinquishing Your Secret Desires to the Page. opensecretsmagazine.com/p/open-secre... @amazonpublishing.bsky.social @wvupress.bsky.social

My Friday newsletter for @niemanstoryboard.org — great advice from @mindahoney.bsky.social for journalists experimenting with memoir. Plus links from @clairewillett.bsky.social, @mallarytenore.bsky.social, @propublica.org and @joepompeo.bsky.social. niemanstoryboard.org/2025/02/28/m...

"To be shameless is to reject the standards set for you by others and live by your own measure." — @mindahoney.bsky.social niemanstoryboard.org/2025/02/28/m... #booksky

"Revise where you're hiding." @mindahoney.bsky.social's advice for journalists experimenting with memoir. niemanstoryboard.org/2025/02/28/m... #longreads #booksky

baby’s first #awp reading: you KNOW it’s at a tattoo shop, with some of my all-time favorite CNF baddies, and will involve death + sex + being put in my place in the funniest way possible. 💘 @natalielima09.bsky.social @mindahoney.bsky.social @lillydancyger.bsky.social @otroedgargomez.bsky.social

If you've read Alligator Tears, I spoke to icon and legend @mindahoney.bsky.social about the turtle passage in the Pulse essay for Harvard's @niemanstoryboard.org. Check it out if you wanna read about what went into writing that one low-key bittersweet scene from the book 🐊🥲🐢

Is this how beauty queens feel when they get crowned for the first time? 🥲 Thank you for the warmed welcome, Mark and for letting me nerd out on craft ❤️‍🔥

BIG NEWS! THE BIGGEST!! And you know that convo between me and Deesha is gonna be JUICCCCY 🍑

Wrote about Irvin Weathersby’s new book, “In Open Contempt,” becoming an art lover and the Peter Pan tale (or should I say Wendy’s story?) open.substack.com/pub/mindahon...

The ways we do or don’t change with age are endlessly interesting to me — sorry party promoters 😬 open.substack.com/pub/mindahon...

Thinking through the difference between contentment and settling — open.substack.com/pub/mindahon...

Five more days until @mindahoney.bsky.social and @finejuli.bsky.social and Jacqui Germain visit us here in Central Illinois? Chicago / St. Louis / Indianapolis friends, come on over! thekeep.eiu.edu/lionsinwinte...

I wrote this week about how social media is following the same trajectory as the American Mall. open.substack.com/pub/mindahon...

We can’t let the trad wives lay claim to homemade soup making. That is solidly a mid-life hobby!! open.substack.com/pub/mindahon...

The timing for attending my first silent retreat could not have been better. 2025 came out the gate with the havoc!! open.substack.com/pub/mindahon...

Somehow most of the posts in my feed are sports related?! How did I get here? How do I get to writing Bluesky?!

A belated newsletter drop! Let your people celebrate you 🫶🏽 open.substack.com/pub/mindahon...

Not to stir back up the storygraph vs goodreads discourse but wow wow wow the reviewers are so much nicer on Storygraph 🥹

I’ve given in. I’m a compression sock girlie now 🧦 open.substack.com/pub/mindahon...

“On Twitter, on Threads, on Bluesky, on one of those text-based apps that is not this one, I see mention of a Reddit sub that is immediately of interest to me, r/askwomenover40.” Latest Mid is now out 💙 open.substack.com/pub/mindahon...

My newsletter is officially relaunched 🥳 I wrote about the ridges in my nails being a harbinger of middle age and why that ain’t so bad. Have a chuckle and share with a friend — new installments every Wednesday at noon. open.substack.com/pub/mindahon...

Soup will pop off in the microwave in the most dramatic way and then have the nerve to still be cold when you go to take it out 🙄

I was truly thiiiiis 🤏🏽 close to deleting this app off my phone from lack of use but I guess it’s a good thing I’m lazy.

I heard y’all using this app now. So lemme drop the link for my latest essay, an ode to my sisters for Harper’s Bazaar’s November print issue — www.harpersbazaar.com/culture/feat...

Time to put this acct to use 😅