Minda Honey @mindahoney.bsky.social · 08/12/2025This week’s newsletter took a deep dive into Ross Gay’s conversational writing style and his short essay “Tomato on Board.” Mindahoney.substack.com 🍅 011
Minda Honey @mindahoney.bsky.social · 02/12/2025I wrote a lil about procrastination in this week’s newsletter. Like is it even real or just something we use to bully ourselves??? open.substack.com/pub/mindahon...open.substack.comProcrastination is a MythThe truth behind what we choose to do with our time 000
Minda Honey @mindahoney.bsky.social · 26/11/2025Did “The Artist’s Way” in 4 weeks instead of 22 and it was still A LOT! Looking forward to do some free workshops this December starting next week. open.substack.com/pub/mindahon...open.substack.comFree Workshops + the last week of "The Artist's Way"You don't gotta miss me in December 000
Minda Honey @mindahoney.bsky.social · 19/11/2025One 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...open.substack.com4-Week Guide to "The Artist's Way": Week 3Connection! Strength! Compassion! 000
Minda Honey @mindahoney.bsky.social · 12/11/2025How’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...open.substack.comAre You Feeling More Creative Yet?Week 2: Integrity, Possibility & Abundance 000
Minda Honey @mindahoney.bsky.social · 10/11/2025It’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... 000
Minda Honey @mindahoney.bsky.social · 29/10/2025Most 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...open.substack.comThe 4-Week Guide to "The Artist's Way"Let's get this wrapped up by Thanksgiving! 000
Reposted by Minda HoneyZine Machine @zinemachine.bsky.social · 29/09/2025✨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! 084
Minda Honey @mindahoney.bsky.social · 10/09/2025The 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. 030
Reposted by Minda HoneyMark Armstrong @markarms.bsky.social · 02/07/2025New 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 #storytellingniemanstoryboard.orgThe Craft of Memoir: Irvin Weathersby Jr. on truth-telling in a travelogue - Nieman Storyboard‘The goal of art is to seek out something pure and true and to convey it.’ The author of ‘In Open Contempt’ on making sense of history and his own story. 011
Reposted by Minda HoneyNieman Storyboard @niemanstoryboard.org · 02/07/2025"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 #memoirniemanstoryboard.orgThe Craft of Memoir: Irvin Weathersby Jr. on truth-telling in a travelogue - Nieman Storyboard‘The goal of art is to seek out something pure and true and to convey it.’ The author of ‘In Open Contempt’ on making sense of history and his own story. 043
Reposted by Minda HoneyMark Armstrong @markarms.bsky.social · 04/07/2025My 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...niemanstoryboard.orgDifferent ways of seeking truth - Nieman StoryboardNadia Reiman on the process behind "This American Life," and Irvin Weathersby Jr.'s deeply personal approach to confronting history. 065
Minda Honey @mindahoney.bsky.social · 26/05/2025I think at this point, nearly three decades in, that we’ve established that the mission is entirely possible. 031
Minda Honey @mindahoney.bsky.social · 21/05/2025In 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...open.substack.comThe Error of My of AnatomyIUDon't: IUD insertions now featuring pain management! 031
Minda Honey @mindahoney.bsky.social · 17/05/2025Seems 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...leoweekly.comThe Plantation In Your Town: How We Handle The Vestiges Of Our PastI wasn’t happy when an ad for the “Soul Cleanse Yoga Festival” popped up in my Facebook feed and I saw several of my friends... 021
Reposted by Minda HoneyLiz DeGregorio @lizdegregorio.bsky.social · 06/05/2025My 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 231
Minda Honey @mindahoney.bsky.social · 08/05/2025It’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...open.substack.comMen think we care about money and women are worried about their lives.Just a little screed about the dudes who interrupt my peace 052
Minda Honey @mindahoney.bsky.social · 03/05/2025The 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...open.substack.comMinda Gets a MammogramLefty gave 'em the run around 020
Reposted by Minda HoneyOpen Secrets Magazine @opensecretsmag.bsky.social · 01/05/2025Our 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 111
Reposted by Minda HoneyMark Armstrong @markarms.bsky.social · 28/02/2025My 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...niemanstoryboard.orgMinda Honey's lessons from writing a memoir, and advice for journalists finding their voice - Nieman StoryboardThe author of "The Heartbreak Years" embraced being "shameless" in telling her own story. 0134
Reposted by Minda HoneyNieman Storyboard @niemanstoryboard.org · 28/02/2025"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... #bookskyniemanstoryboard.orgMinda Honey's lessons from writing a memoir, and advice for journalists finding their voice - Nieman StoryboardThe author of "The Heartbreak Years" embraced being "shameless" in telling her own story. 032
Reposted by Minda HoneyNieman Storyboard @niemanstoryboard.org · 01/03/2025"Revise where you're hiding." @mindahoney.bsky.social's advice for journalists experimenting with memoir. niemanstoryboard.org/2025/02/28/m... #longreads #bookskyniemanstoryboard.orgMinda Honey's lessons from writing a memoir, and advice for journalists finding their voice - Nieman StoryboardThe author of "The Heartbreak Years" embraced being "shameless" in telling her own story. 023
Reposted by Minda HoneyEdgar Gomez @otroedgargomez.bsky.social · 27/02/2025If 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 🐊🥲🐢 095
Minda Honey @mindahoney.bsky.social · 27/02/2025Is 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 ❤️🔥 032
Minda Honey @mindahoney.bsky.social · 27/02/2025BIG NEWS! THE BIGGEST!! And you know that convo between me and Deesha is gonna be JUICCCCY 🍑 040
Minda Honey @mindahoney.bsky.social · 24/02/2025Wrote 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...open.substack.comAll the Men are Peter Pan, All the Women WendyOn leaving Neverland 010
Minda Honey @mindahoney.bsky.social · 12/02/2025The ways we do or don’t change with age are endlessly interesting to me — sorry party promoters 😬 open.substack.com/pub/mindahon...open.substack.comI Want to Be Where the People [Aren't](Sorry, Ariel!) 000
Minda Honey @mindahoney.bsky.social · 09/02/2025Thinking through the difference between contentment and settling — open.substack.com/pub/mindahon...open.substack.com"Your sunroom is coming."On the work never being finished because the dreams are never done. 031
Reposted by Minda HoneyBluestem @bluestemmag.bsky.social · 24/01/2025Five 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... 001
Minda Honey @mindahoney.bsky.social · 30/01/2025I wrote this week about how social media is following the same trajectory as the American Mall. open.substack.com/pub/mindahon...open.substack.comSocial media is going the way of the mallA haunted desolate place drained of its magic 000
Minda Honey @mindahoney.bsky.social · 22/01/2025We can’t let the trad wives lay claim to homemade soup making. That is solidly a mid-life hobby!! open.substack.com/pub/mindahon...open.substack.comSoup on SundaysRecipes, recs and reflections on a winter full of soup 060
Minda Honey @mindahoney.bsky.social · 16/01/2025The 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...open.substack.comWelcome to the Wrath YearMinda goes to a silent retreat! 010
Minda Honey @mindahoney.bsky.social · 05/01/2025Somehow most of the posts in my feed are sports related?! How did I get here? How do I get to writing Bluesky?! 230
Minda Honey @mindahoney.bsky.social · 03/01/2025A belated newsletter drop! Let your people celebrate you 🫶🏽 open.substack.com/pub/mindahon...open.substack.comMy birthday wish to youYou deserve to be celebrated! 020
Minda Honey @mindahoney.bsky.social · 20/12/2024Not to stir back up the storygraph vs goodreads discourse but wow wow wow the reviewers are so much nicer on Storygraph 🥹 130
Minda Honey @mindahoney.bsky.social · 18/12/2024I’ve given in. I’m a compression sock girlie now 🧦 open.substack.com/pub/mindahon... 150
Minda Honey @mindahoney.bsky.social · 11/12/2024“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...open.substack.comOn hitting reset at [nearly] 40Reddit, Give Me Courage 030
Minda Honey @mindahoney.bsky.social · 04/12/2024My 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...open.substack.comWhy I go to bed looking like Mickey MouseWelcome to Mid(Life.) 340
Minda Honey @mindahoney.bsky.social · 04/12/2024Soup 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 🙄 080
Minda Honey @mindahoney.bsky.social · 14/11/2024I 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. 6501
Minda Honey @mindahoney.bsky.social · 14/11/2023I 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...harpersbazaar.comI Moved Home to Reconnect with My Sisters. I'd Do It Again in a Heartbeat.Our relationship had changed, but now we're closer than ever. 0173
