About Kara …

Oh my goodness - you’re here!

Hi!

Take Me Right to Kara's Writing

Wondering About Where the Beauty Is?

It’s my new spot for writing about midlife, transitions, messy beauty, journaling and probably cats.

I’m Kara, and I’m a midlife lady figuring things out, even though I feel at once 27 and also 87.

I usually do not feel old enough to handle all the big stuff happening here at once - kids going to college and moving away and buying their own shampoo …

But also, all of a sudden, I’m REALLY into birds. 🤷🏻‍♀️👵🏻

✍️ What I am Doing Here on Substack

I decided to start writing on Substack for two reasons:

1. I really wanted a fresh start. I blogged for years, and I loved it, but then two years ago I decided to shut everything down and recalibrate. I thought about writing on Substack then, and I thought about it some more, and then, on a random Friday, I just went for it because sometimes, we just have to jump in the pool.

2. Also, I like that I can write something, and if you subscribe, it goes right to your email. I don’t have to share on social media and get all stressed about algorithms. I can just write and push send. That feels so easeful, and currently, I am looking for ALL THE EASE.

Supporting My Writing

I jumped into Substack, so I didn’t think about asking for money from readers to support my writing, but then, some of you signed up to support my work and started sharing it and I got so excited.

I thought - wait … could I do this? Could I make time to write and maybe earn a bit of income?

Holy macaroni!

That’s what I’ve always wanted, to JUST WRITE, but I didn’t think that could be a reality and now it’s starting to be and I am so grateful I could burst. Really. 💙

I’m In This for the Long Haul

It’s been my dream since I was 5 years old to be a writer, and more and more, I feel like something is missing if I’m not writing.

This is part of practicing wholeheartedness for me, and so if I don’t write, things feel so much harder and my soul gets achey, and I just want to move to a retirement home and smoke Pall Malls and sit by a pool and shrivel into a little lady raisin.

💟 So Why Join Me?

First … I have so many ideas, and so many fun things in the works! #podcast #liveevents #surprises

Also, if you subscribe, it makes your life easier!

Because when you subscribe, even for free - you get posts sent right to your email. Yeah!

You don’t have to learn to work a new app!

And let’s face it, if you are around my age, you don’t even really know how to work “The Big TV” anymore and also like me, you are probably really tired of learning new things, so go ahead - I mean, it’s FREEEEEEE. 🎉

So I Don’t Have to Pay?

Nope.

I plan to write plenty of free posts!

But if you want to pay to support my writing, that’s super nice.

Thank you.

You’re amazing and I think your hair looks great today!

Why Become a Paid Subscriber?

Well, paid subscribers get some fun extras.

I have three paid subscription options, and if you sign up for any of them, it means you get:

• all my posts delivered to your email

• plus special member-only posts

• and full access to my archives

• AND … automatic access to other fun stuff that is coming soon

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✨ Membership Options ✨

🗓️ Monthly Subscriptions

First - you can subscribe for $7 per month.

I love it when you do that.

🥳 Yearly Subscriptions

If you want to save some money and because I like 7s, you can subscribe for the WHOLE YEAR for $77. (That’s a month for free.)

I can’t help it, when you subscribe for a year, it feels like when people start clapping for Tinker Bell.

I think - OK, I should keep going. Thank you! ✨

I named my club for my biggest supporters The Meatball Club because:

1. I’m Italian, and growing up, we would go to ‘The Club’ on Friday nights and meatballs were extra. So it was always a decision - did I want a meatball? Was it worth the investment? What if I put it in a box and ate it the next day for lunch? (I was like 6 years old at the time.)

   So - you don’t have to give me a dime and I will love you anyway. I have had plenty of times when money was tight, and I had to decide if I could “afford a meatball,” so to speak, so don’t worry.

   

   
   
   Joining my club just means that you are able to lend a little extra support, and in turn, you have first access to any fun new stuff. Winkedy-wink-wink-wink.

   
   AND … 💜🩵🩶

2. If can keep growing this Baby Business, I will continue to be able to offer more and more extras! 🍝

3. I am obsessed with something called Meatball Tape.

4. I want the opportunity to send my biggest supporters something fun in the actual mail 💌 I l LOVE making care packages. And I would LOVE to send one to YOU!!!

5. It’s a fun name, and it makes me giggle. Who wouldn’t want to be in The Meatball Club? 🍝 (says the vegetarian writer) 😁

So to Recap …

Paid Members

If you sign up as a paid monthly or annual subscriber, you will receive:

• new posts sent right to you in your inbox AND

• full access to my archive

• immediate access to additional member benefits, coming soon, including the Where The Beauty Is Podcast 🌟

🍝 Meatball Club members get a few extra extras:

If you join The Meatball Club you get everything listed above, PLUS … I will send you a note and gift package, packed with some of my favorite things, including, of course, some Meatball Tape!!!

I mean, look at this stuff!

🐱 My Promise To You 🐱

OK - I’m going to get Serious-Pants 👖 just for a second, because I want you to know I really, really mean this:

Some of you are brand new and that is so fun.

Some of you are friends who stuck with me during my two-year-ish online hiatus and I am so grateful. Thank you.

So …

I can’t say that there won’t come a point when I get scared, and want to hide under my weighted blanket for a minute.

BUT, I can say that I have learned a lot the past two years, and so this is my promise:

Thank you so much for being here. 🩵

Little 5-year-old me who wrote a story about cats and bubble gum in Kindergarten and won a ribbon and a crisp $5 bill and thought - wait - people will PAY YOU to write things about cats? - is especially grateful.