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The Card of Integrity
Or, How to consume the news without combusting into bits.
Apr 7
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Heather Lanier
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March 2025
If You Feel Like a Bad Mom
Deconstructing the "Good Mother" Myth
Mar 20
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Heather Lanier
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January 2025
The day we had sparkly good news
and how we might look for it again.
Jan 18
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Heather Lanier
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Our Big New Dreams
...and how to keep them from becoming shame-monsters on our heads
Jan 1
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Heather Lanier
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December 2024
Heartbreak and Wonder Coalesce in December
And that's totally okay. Here's a poem in which I wonder if Mary fretted about microwaving her deli meats. (not really--but kind of.)
Dec 21, 2024
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Heather Lanier
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Heartbreak and Wonder Coalesce in December
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November 2024
Awe & Wonder in Election Week
I've voted. You've voted. Might I now suggest shouting cosmic facts at your people?
Nov 4, 2024
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Heather Lanier
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September 2024
On the Not-Rightness of Things
and art as response
Sep 30, 2024
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Heather Lanier
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Writing an Essay Is Like Walking in the Dark
Encouragement for essayistic thinking and art-making.
Sep 24, 2024
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Heather Lanier
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August 2024
Can You Rethink Just One Rule?
A simple experiment for creative living
Aug 1, 2024
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Heather Lanier
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Can You Rethink Just One Rule?
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July 2024
Every Body Has Something
and all bodies are good.
Jul 9, 2024
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Heather Lanier
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Walking the Wrong Way Through Mary Cassatt
On caregiving as a not-so-sentimental act
Jul 2, 2024
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Heather Lanier
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June 2024
You Might Not Be "Doing Nothing"
You might be healing.
Jun 11, 2024
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Heather Lanier
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You Might Not Be "Doing Nothing"
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