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White Guys Explain Privilege to Me
Are they doing this to you, too? And if so, isn't a bit like the illness masking as the cure?
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Heather Lanier
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You Don’t Need to Self-Optimize, in Lent or in Life
Or Why, If Jesus Were Alive Today, His Wild Beasts Would Be Algorithms
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Heather Lanier
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Some Essays Take Years
On Hearts and Hospitals and the Process of Finding the Meaning
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Heather Lanier
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Priority Creep: A Cautionary Tale
When the bar on "What Matters" keeps moving
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Heather Lanier
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Sometimes You Gotta Buy a Vowel
How I remained a writer while raising small humans
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Heather Lanier
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Blessed Are You on the Struggle Bus
On the life-saving art of writing absurd beatitudes
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Heather Lanier
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Loving a Broken World in a Tinselly Season
Notes on Longing, Lament, and the Expected Cheer of Christmas
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Heather Lanier
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Embrace Your True Subject
A Writer’s Case Study in Running from (and Returning to) Herself
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Heather Lanier
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How to Protect Your Creative Self
Advice for Artists in the Digital Age
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Heather Lanier
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Protect Your Creative Self
An Artist's Manifesto in the Digital Age
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Heather Lanier
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The Slow Take
The Slow Take
An occasional newsletter about the strange beauty of being human, from poet & essayist Heather Lanier.
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