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Homesickness as Loneliness
An essay on the upside of homogeneity. And what to do when a novel sets up camp in your brain.
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Mandy Len Catron
12
May 2023
The meritocracy is getting me down
An essay on scarcity and abundance and, in the words of Ross Gay, becoming unfixed.
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Mandy Len Catron
5
February 2023
Kind of a big deal
On being a Public Person again, getting free clothes, wilting of embarrassment, and making a TED course (!)
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Mandy Len Catron
4
December 2022
Tramping down the brush and the brambles
Or an argument in favor of asking for and accepting help
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Mandy Len Catron
6
September 2022
The underground matriarchy of human evolution
A short essay on grandmas and orcas and evolutionary anthropology
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Mandy Len Catron
7
March 2022
Let’s talk about money, baby
On wanting to die of discomfort and surviving anyway
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Mandy Len Catron
3
February 2022
I'm not a regular mom. I'm a cool mom.
On Mom and other social roles that (fail to) define us
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Mandy Len Catron
7
January 2022
The upside of living in a hospital in a pandemic
A letter about love and trauma
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Mandy Len Catron
17
July 2021
The illusion of the individual self
A shortish essay about microbes and fungus and pregnancy and theoretical physics
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Mandy Len Catron
6
June 2021
The problem with luck
A letter about the terrible and the miraculous
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Mandy Len Catron
8
March 2021
January 2021
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