Our Midstack Weekly Share Thread
Share your latest essay with our community of midlife writers
It’s Friday! Does it seem to you the weeks speed by even faster during the summer? It doesn’t seem possible that it’s almost August.
This week I introduced a new regular Midstack feature: a Notes share thread. If you have a Note that you would to get a little attention from other midlife women, please tell us about it here.
Here’s how the Midstack Friday share thread works:
In the comments of this post, briefly introduce yourself and your Substack (just a sentence or two)
Tell us (again briefly) what you’re sharing this week
Drop the link to your post or Note
Spend a few minutes on other people’s work too: comment, restack, like, or share
If someone's writing pulls you in, subscribe. That's how we grow together!
Come back throughout the weekend and into next week. (This thread keeps going all week long!)
If an essay connects with you, say so on the piece itself, not just here in the comments. And if you’ve already engaged with someone’s work outside this thread, please like here too, so they know.
Have a wonderful weekend!
xo Jessica
P.S. Do you have thoughts about Substack’s new integration with the AI detector, Pangram? You can join in on our Midstack community conversation about it HERE in the chat. I would really like to know what you think! (And look for an article here on Midstack in the next few days….)






Hello! This week I shared my humor piece "Hemingway on Perimenopause."
https://jackiepick.substack.com/p/hemingway-on-perimenopause-447
I write satire and (mostly) humorous (?) essays about motherhood, culture, books, exhaustion, the strange social rituals we all sort of assume are normal, and all things bizarre/hilarious/painful about contemporary existence.
In other words, variations on "Is this normal? Am I normal? Because I'm not sure both can be true at the same time.”
My publication, Distracted by Pretty Things, is my attempt to sift for beauty in everything—even (and maybe especially) amongst the brokenness and bullshit of life.
This week I’m sharing a Dear John letter I got—from myself…
https://distractedbyprettythings.substack.com/p/i-got-a-dear-john-letter?r=43tgx8&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web