Archive - Inner Workings

Mommies aren't for biting, and other real things I say to my toddler

Parenting advice from the 1960's still reigns

20 hrs ago •

I need nine hours of sleep

There are people who need sleep, and then there are people who NEED. SLEEP.

Apr 18 •

I Felt Important

Reflections on my early career at McKinsey & Company

Apr 11 •

I suddenly lost my ambition

Plus updates from the land, mothering a second child, and a baby in sunglasses

Apr 3 •

March 2024

Magic 8 Ball Mind

I had a baby but sadly no creative renaissance

Mar 27 •

Infertility, feminine rage, and the secret mourning place of women trying to get pregnant

Mar 20 •

The Wandering Nerve

A haphazard tour of vagus nerve exercises and visualizations

Mar 13 •

Is my intuition an "inner knowing," or a complex bodily response to environment, community, and history?

Mar 6 •

February 2024

Drowning in dopamine

How "coffee" and Alana Haim are the same to my brain

Feb 28 •

If you were rich, would you fold laundry?

And: what would it look like to give all life tasks the time they take?

Feb 21 •

The infinite attempts of living

A love letter from a baby essayist to those of us attempting to write and write honestly

Feb 14 •

Gentle and powerful

Is it possible to be both?

Feb 7 •

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