My First Story on Substack (by ALICE HURLEY, Reporter)

I drove five hours (traffic, lightning) to Sag Harbor Thursday to see 

the play "Mister Halston." Photo by Phil Merritt.

My first Substack post is live, about "Mister Halston."

Review of the one-man show here.

It's been a long time blogging....since 2010, to be exact. I followed my friend Kim onto the Blogspot platform, captivated by her reports. I loved posting my own, and now they also serve as very useful looks back, not just as a writer but especially as a mother on a sometimes rocky road.

Now my writer/editor friends Kim Flodin and Fay Ellis both write on Substack. And I love to follow icons Amanda Hesser, Dorie Greenspan (baking) and Kim France (fashion) there. I just subscribed to Sam's Plate, by nutritionist Samantha Cassetty, MS, RD, a contact from Good Housekeeping days. Seems there are free subscriptions and paid ones ranging from $5 to $8 monthly. And I just cancelled an $8 feed written by a style society maven because she wrote a catty comment about a fashion writer I adore. I don't like that.

I hope you will check out my first post.

Thank you. I still don't know how I will balance Substack writing with blogging. For a long time, and through the pandemic, I wrote on Medium, but mostly earned just pennies there, except for one controversial "Other Side of Karen" post that brought in about $500.

More to come.

Photos by Phil Merritt.