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Personal essays on the experiences, moments, and ideas that stick with us. Written to be felt as much as read.

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The Particular Loneliness of Being Admired
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Essays The Particular Loneliness of Being Admired

There is a woman in my life who has been admired for as long as I have known her, and I have watched the admiration do something to her over the years...

What We Lost When We Started Calling It Self-Care
Essays What We Lost When We Started Calling It Self-Care

The phrase self-care entered the cultural bloodstream in the 1970s through the writing of Black femi...

What the Latest Research Says About Women and Burnout
Essays What the Latest Research Says About Women and Burnout

When Dr. Christina Maslach published the first comprehensive measure of workplace burnout in 1981, s...

What I Used to Call Strength and What I Now Call Survival
Essays What I Used to Call Strength and What I Now Call Survival

 I used to be proud of how much I could carry. The list of things was long. A full job. A...

What I Learned When I Finally Said No
Essays What I Learned When I Finally Said No

The first no was to a woman I had known for eleven years. She had asked me, the way she had asked me...

The Friendship Breakup No One Talks About
Essays The Friendship Breakup No One Talks About

My friend and I stopped speaking on a Tuesday in October. There was no fight. There was no final con...

Women Do Not Need More Motivation. They Need Support.
Essays Women Do Not Need More Motivation. They Need Support.

There is a particular kind of advice that gets aimed at women, and it has been the same for decades....

The Year Everything Changed and No One Noticed
Essays The Year Everything Changed and No One Noticed

There is a particular kind of year that does not look like a turning point while you are living it....