Thursday, August,30, 2023: Substack Recommendations

Daily Diary, Day 1095: Brief check in: Yesterday we actually had A/C on from afternoon to sun went down, as the weather went from sunny, cloudy, to sunny and temperature went up to 80 degrees by 10, down to 76 degrees at noon, then up to mid 80s in the afternoon! NPR said it was to hit 83 today, but the weather channel says only mid 70s, so maybe we’ll have another up and down day. Certainly was still and hot this morning on my walk. But here I am blathering about weather when so many of you in the southeast are experiencing the effects of a real hurricane and bad tropical storm—not our recent very mild Hurricane Hilary! So hope any of you in that part of the country are staying safe.

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Most Thursdays, when my goal is to have my recommendation posts focus g on substack newsletters, I will generally include at least one substack newsletter or post that seems of particular interest to people my age who are senior citizens…or have a senior citizen in their life…or are spending too much time wondering what it is going to be like when they become a senior citizen…oh well, you get my point.

Today, the newsletter that fits that bill that I am recommending is Aging Passionately with Ina Albert, a newsletter that I just recently found. Albert describes the newsletter as consisting of “a collection of stories and essays chronicling 88 years of experiences and the values I have discovered along the way to be crucial for healthy aging in the second half of life.” She has only been putting out the newsletter since April, and I am quite enjoying reading through the past posts. My favorite post so far is “The Flying Great Grandpa.”

Not surprisingly, I have also subscribed to a number of newsletters that have a historical element to them. I think that those of you who enjoy the quotes from 1880s newspapers that I often put at the beginning of chapters in my historical mysteries will find this newsletter a hoot. It is called Strange Times and in the About Page it says:  “Strange Times is a twice-monthly free newsletter exploring the strangest material found in the archives of the 1921 New York Times. Each issue features several short articles drawn from a single issue of the newspaper—bizarre tales of bootleggers, jazz, murder, and thieves, told in classic, rat-a-tat newspaper prose.” Do go take a look at it.

Finally, I have subscribed to a number of newstack newsletters that I call humorous. Now, humor is a very personal thing, what someone finds funny, someone else finds objectionable. So, I am not necessarily going to recommend these newsletters as a whole, but I will often recommend a specific post you might give a try.

However, I think that all of you might find this particular newsletter quite fun. It is called Get Wit Quick, it comes out weekly, and the author says that the newsletter is “…a weekly collection of choice quips and quick tips calculated to surprise, amuse, and spur your creativity…” I never fail to chuckle or outright guffaw when I read his posts, so I recommend you check it out.

Finally, I thought I would do a little shameless recommending of my own work today, by pointing out that the audiobook editions of my first four books in my Victorian San Francisco Mystery series, plus the collection of the first four short stories, are currently on sale for ridiculously low prices. You can check them out by clicking on this handy little button.

In case you aren’t sure how you got here, I’m Mary Louisa Locke, the author of the USA Today best-selling Victorian San Francisco Mystery series and the Caelestis Science Fiction series. This is my newsletter reflecting on my life as an indie author trying to age gracefully. If you aren’t already subscribed but are interested in doing so, you can subscribe for free by clicking the little button below. If you enjoyed this post, please do click on the little heart and/or share with your friends.

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