Beth DeCarbo’s Mom & Pop Hardware is a storytelling‑driven Substack publication that uses independent hardware stores as a looking-glass for exploring American life, history, and culture.

One of fewer than one hundred women on Earth to complete the Seven Summits—the highest peaks on every continent—Dianette Wells has spent her life pushing beyond limits most people never dare approach. From the frozen brutality of Antarctica to the death zones of the world’s tallest mountains, she has faced avalanches, exhaustion, isolation, and fear with relentless determination.