American - Author | 1970 -
Confessions are not processed or analysed; they're told in a moment of desperation to a priest or to somebody interrogating you about a crime.
Meghan Daum
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For me, writing essays is very much about processing ideas and offering them up to the reader so that they are fully cooked.
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As with 'feminism,' not to mention 'liberalism' and 'conservatism,' 'political correctness' tends to mean what you want it to mean, which also pretty much amounts to utter meaninglessness.
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Mother's Day, like motherhood itself, is fraught with peril. There are so many ways to get it wrong, so many opportunities to disappoint and be disappointed.
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Almost nothing is more tedious than complaining about the weather.
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It may take a village to raise a child, but not every villager needs to be a mom or dad. Some of us just need to be who we are.
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As a mentor and an advocate, I've seen no end to the ways that childless people can contribute to the lives and well-being of kids - and adults, for that matter.
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I never sit down to write anything personal unless I know the subject is going to go beyond my own experience and address something larger and more universal.
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People who choose not to have kids do so because they respect the job of parenting so much that they know not to take it on if they know it's not something that they're up for, and I don't know what to be a bigger tribute to parenting than that.
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Writers are the ones who figure out how to put their observations into words.
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I think people seem to want to read pieces that are shorter but not as short as the pieces they can read in small bites on the Internet. It may be that the sort of long essays are hitting a sweet spot between the tiny morsels online and the full-length book.
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I love the essay. It's my favorite genre to work in.
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