Archive - The Loneliness Project

Reimagining marriage as a community ritual

Is it possible to reject the individualism at the heart of our modern marriage? (+ a story about how our wedding ended up in the New York Times.)

May 29 •

Mandy Len Catron

April 2025

Saying the unspoken thing

Why does the political divide feel so unbearably lonely these days? Or: what you can learn from three year olds about building a shared reality.

Apr 30 •

Mandy Len Catron

February 2025

The loneliness of climate change, part two: the less lonely spreadsheet edition!

I made a thing! Please contribute--and share!

Feb 18 •

Mandy Len Catron

October 2024

What to do about the loneliness of climate change?

I'm building a baseball diamond in a corn field here, people.

Oct 8, 2024 •

Mandy Len Catron

July 2024

Can't stop, won't stop: thinking about species loneliness

On walking with and without dogs + some stuff I've published lately

Jul 15, 2024 •

Mandy Len Catron

January 2024

My small grinchy heart

On the loneliness of the writer in every room

Jan 30, 2024 •

Mandy Len Catron

November 2023

That other self was a fiction anyhow

On being a parent and a writer.

Nov 10, 2023 •

Mandy Len Catron

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.

Aug 22, 2023 •

Mandy Len Catron

May 2023

The meritocracy is getting me down

An essay on scarcity and abundance and, in the words of Ross Gay, becoming unfixed.

May 25, 2023 •

Mandy Len Catron

February 2023

Kind of a big deal

On being a Public Person again, getting free clothes, wilting of embarrassment, and making a TED course (!)

Feb 7, 2023 •

Mandy Len Catron

December 2022

Tramping down the brush and the brambles

Or an argument in favor of asking for and accepting help

Dec 12, 2022 •

Mandy Len Catron

September 2022

The underground matriarchy of human evolution

A short essay on grandmas and orcas and evolutionary anthropology

Sep 30, 2022 •

Mandy Len Catron

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