The Mother Lode
Cindy DiTiberio, Melinda Wenner Moyer, Catherine Baab, Rebecca Woolf, Tracy Clark-Flory, Savala Nolan, Ruth Whippman, Unhitched: Let's Talk Divorce, avalon, Corinne LowEssays & interviews on motherhood, marriage, and divorce
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I reached out to a few weeks ago about doing a Substack Live because I love her writing and knew she’d gone through a divorce around the same time as I did. I had no idea when we started our Live how much we would have in common. We have k...
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Writer of The Mother Lode and a New York Times bestselling collaborator and editor who has worked in publishing for over twenty years. Her writing has appeared in The Lily, Yahoo, Scary Mommy, Literary Mama, Mutha Magazine, and more.
Award-winning science journalist, regular contributor to The New York Times, author of HELLO, CRUEL WORLD! and HOW TO RAISE KIDS WHO AREN’T ASSHOLES.
Writer, journalist: Slate, Lit Hub, WSJ, CNBC, NBC. Author of Poe for Your Problems: Uncommon Advice from History's Least Likely Self-Help Guru.
mother of four, author of books, (inc ALL OF THIS: a memoir of death and desire) and sex & the single mom. formerly girl’s gone child. currently in my car driving someone somewhere prob.
Tracy Clark-Flory is the author of the memoir MY MOTHER'S DAUGHTER. Also: WANT ME. She is a journalist, essayist, and co-hosts the podcast Dire Straights. Her weekly newsletter, TCF Emails, covers sex, pop culture, and feminism.
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Author and journalist. Former BBC documentary maker. Words in New York Times, Guardian etc. Author of BoyMom, Reimagining Boyhood in the Age of Impossible Masculinity (Harmony/ Penguin 2024) and America the Anxious (St Martins 2016)
I'm the author of Unhitched: The Essential Divorce Guide for Women. I am also a therapist, a mom and a step mom. I'm passionate about reducing the shame and stigma of divorce.
after 24 years of marriage, I began the messy process of untangling myself from a role I'd mistaken for my identity. Writing about relationships, midlife, sovereignty, and what happens when we stop abandoning ourselves in order to belong.
Economist at Wharton. Author, Having It All: What Data Tells Us About Women's Lives and Getting the Most Out of Yours.
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