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RIPE
Post-trauma badassery, unapologetic ageing, gardening as witchcraft, menopausal resurrection, van life joyrides, and neurospicy chaos.
By Sue Reed
Welcome to Ripe...I'm Sue, come on in.
Jun 17, 2025•Sue Reed
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#1/2 ADHD Discovery Journey: A letter to myself at age 63
Oct 8, 2025•Sue Reed
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Nathalie Cordell is June's guest author in The Book Room
Jun 22•Sue Reed and Nathalie Cordell
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On Independent Bookshop Week and the cover reveal.
Jun 15•Sue Reed
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On coming full circle, partnership publishing, and going rogue.
Jun 7•Sue Reed
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Life Writing
A Storybook Grandma ... but how to show and not tell?
On the writing and reading of a eulogy
May 31•Sue Reed
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On the Puritan work ethic, a fidgety brain and holiday reading.
May 11•Sue Reed
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This is the girl (whose body was never the problem)
On the roots of shame, food issues and pre-diabetes.
Apr 13•Sue Reed
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The Book Room
Lesley Bungay is in The Book Room for May 2026
May 18•Sue Reed and Lesley Bungay
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Eleanor Anstruther is in The Book Room
Apr 20•Sue Reed and Eleanor Anstruther
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On writing so others might be seen.
Apr 7•Sue Reed
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Slow Living
A change of plan, an orange skip, a twilight zone and home to green.
May 24•Sue Reed
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Gardening as Witchcraft: Ripe Pickings late April 2026.
Apr 27•Sue Reed
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Feb 22•Sue Reed
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Slow Travel
A Madonna with fairy lights, my Mother and Me: Venice works its Magic.
On the overlap between place and memory, and how place can help heal hurt
Nov 13, 2025•Sue Reed
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Travelling alone to Venice, but what would Donna do?
Slow and solo travel as a writer at 63.
Nov 7, 2025•Sue Reed
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On Lobsters and Books. Slow Travel and Book Marketing.
Sep 22, 2025•Sue Reed
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My ADHD Journey,
#3/3 My ADHD Discovery Journey - on addiction and soothing
Oct 21, 2025•Sue Reed
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2/3 ADHD Discovery Journey: Calm in Chaos and the Impossibility of Rest](https://suereed.substack.com/p/lightbulb-moments-calm-in-chaos-and)
Oct 15, 2025•Sue Reed
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#1/2 ADHD Discovery Journey: A letter to myself at age 63
Oct 8, 2025•Sue Reed
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grief
A Storybook Grandma ... but how to show and not tell?
On the writing and reading of a eulogy
May 31•Sue Reed
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Mother's Day? It's Complicated.
On Mum's books and being mothered or not, as the case may be.
Mar 16•Sue Reed
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Birth Stories. Part One - Mum's Story
On clarity and healing the mother wound
Aug 30, 2025•Sue Reed
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Sex, Gin and Chocolate Cupcakes
#6. 'He did things.' Diary entry age 15, read by my mother.
Sex, Gin and Chocolate Cupcakes - when the stuffing has to stop
May 5•Sue Reed
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#5 1983: A Married Man with Tight Trousers and a Gold Medallion
Sex, Gin and Chocolate Cupcakes - when the stuffing has to stop
Feb 6•Sue Reed
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#4 1976. Herman Hesse and Vanilla Tea
Sex, Gin and Chocolate Cupcakes - When the stuffing has to stop
Apr 24, 2025•Sue Reed
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