What Now? with Lindsay Johnstone
Lindsay Johnstone, Sasha Neal, Barbara Ratcliffe, Emily Flannery, Ingrid FernandezA global top 100 life writing publication plus the host of acclaimed memoir and expressive writing group programmes
| Platform |  | Pricing | Freemium | Publishes | Weekly |
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| Issues | 231 | Founded | 4 years ago | Last Issue | 10 days ago |
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take me to the distant past
It is 6.30pm both at home and where I am, naked in the hotel bathroom on day five of our holiday.
It is 6.30pm both at home and where I am, naked in the hotel bathroom on day five of our holiday. The bikini I’ve just taken off lies in the...
out of office
I didn’t bring my laptop away this Easter, which tells you everything worth knowing re: how much I've been needing time away from work in all its forms.
I'm typing this on my phone on Saturday, which is day four of our holiday. Maybe, fin...
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✨Top 100 Bestseller in Parenting✨ Asking "What Now?" as we rattle roughshod over the peaks + troughs of early perimenopause while caring for others / Facilitating your journaling + memoir-writing journey in joyous community
On the other side of the sandwich generation, after a decade of care for parents with Alzheimer's and FTD and two young children. Writing about family, dementia, grief and navigating the UK's social care system
I'm a retired teacher who finally has time to write. Much of my writing is about my parent’s lives coming to England from Hong Kong in the 1950s. I also write about growing up in 1960s and 70s, navigating motherhood,work and now retirement.
midwife | mother | writer scribbling two newsletters from my cosy desk\ud83d\udccdnr london -- if nobody speaks of remarkable things (a tiny life archive) + latent phase (gently unpacking birth trauma).
I'm a mid-life woman writing about grief, joy, mothering, expat life and the messy middle years. I’m giving myself permission to write, and exploring what it means to claim that permission alongside other mid-lifers.
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