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My small grinchy heart
On the loneliness of the writer in every room
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Mandy Len Catron
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November 2023

That other self was a fiction anyhow
On being a parent and a writer.
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Mandy Len Catron
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August 2023

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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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March 2022

Let’s talk about money, baby
On wanting to die of discomfort and surviving anyway
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Mandy Len Catron
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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
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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
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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
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June 2021

The problem with luck
A letter about the terrible and the miraculous
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Mandy Len Catron
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