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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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March 2024

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
5

February 2024

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
5

January 2024

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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December 2023

Loving a Broken World in a Tinselly Season
Notes on Longing, Lament, and the Expected Cheer of Christmas
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Heather Lanier
5

November 2023

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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October 2023

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
5

September 2023

Why Can't We Say We're Awesome?
Or, how the Barbie movie's pink matriarchal utopia made me tear up.
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Heather Lanier
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Say Hello to Psalms of Unknowing!
...a feminist collection of poetry, about motherhood and spirituality and fighting the patriarchy and finding the divine.
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Heather Lanier
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