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Researchers asked older adults with and without cognitive impairment to copy a sentence from a card, then write one from dictation — only the second task revealed a clear difference between the groups

The blog of weird Etsy products people couldn’t believe were real

I have interviewed 50 adult children of difficult parents and the quietest thing that tends to come up isn’t anger or grief: it’s the particular tiredness of having spent years hoping someone would become a person they may have never quite been

The websites everyone used to visit when they were bored before social media took over

There is a version of success nobody is selling you — enough money to pay the bills, work you actually care about, and shutting the laptop at 5pm to have dinner with people you love — and it is harder to want than it sounds

I’ve watched enough true crime to be hard to impress, and these are the 8 Netflix documentaries I wish I could watch again for the first time

News in the Blogosphere

The blog of weird Etsy products people couldn’t believe were real

I have interviewed 70 people in their 60s who have very few close friends, and loneliness, when it came up, often sounded less like missing people and more like missing the person you used to be around them

Texts From Last Night: the blog of messages people regretted sending

The wellness blogger who built a brand on a fake illness and exposed how easily hope can be sold

Blogging Tips & Guides

Most people overestimate how fast blogging pays and underestimate how long the money can keep coming once a good post finds its audience

Everyone is telling you to start a Substack. Blog Herald has been covering this industry since 2003 — here’s what we actually think

A Substack writer with 20,000 subscribers laid out her seven-step growth framework. Here’s what it reveals about how the platform actually works in 2026

Writers who go quiet for months aren’t blocked — they’re waiting for the distance that turns experience into something they can actually use

The Ideas Room

The way someone handles being corrected in a comment thread can be surprisingly telling about how safe they feel being wrong in general

Not everything people share online is a cry for attention — for many, posting may be the closest thing they have to a journal that occasionally writes back

People who journal every morning aren’t always processing something heavy — sometimes they’re just trying to hear themselves before the day starts talking

Why some people trust a stranger on TikTok more than a credentialed expert — and what that may say about how exhausted people have become with being talked down to