GET GUTSY is a newsletter for curious, hopeful people who need courage to write or tell their stories.
Trish McDonald, author of PAPER BAGS, is a nutritionist who writes about a different kind of hunger. At 78, McDonald's search for love and a safe place turns toward longevity and health span.
Exploring what it means to travel through time in a human body, at every phase of life.
The story is not about what happened, it's about what the narrator makes of what happened.
For people who do language. Writing saved my life—so I teach writing as if it might save yours.
From Jocelyn Jane Cox, former competitive figure skater and coach. Author of forthcoming memoir MOTION DAZZLE (9/2025) about skating, becoming a mother while losing her own, and performing through pain, both on and off the ice.