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Kinds of Kindness
SPOILER ALERT! Incarnations of Burned Children! Mother! Kinds of Kindness! TRIGGER WARNING! Injured babies! A few years ago I taught a semester at a…
Jul 15
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Lara Williams
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Interval Training
Anna used to be a runner but now she only swam. She swam three times a week. She used to run three times a week, too, which landed her around a point…
Jul 2
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Lara Williams
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June 2024
Follicular Phase
I messaged a friend this morning saying, Even though I feel a baseline thrum of deep melancholy, loss and abstract longing, I’m feeling full of beans…
Jun 25
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Lara Williams
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Black Hole
The month I turned forty-four my parents moved to California. Around the same time I moved to the High Peaks. It was a coincidence, but also, a mutual…
Jun 9
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Lara Williams
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May 2024
Remake / Remodel: Identity, Motherhood and Music
Becoming a mother remakes you in ways you cannot begin to conceive of in advance. It literally recasts your body into a new shape. Some of the ways my…
May 29
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Lara Williams
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April 2024
Chaotic Neutral
I went to visit my sister yesterday, and her beautiful newborn baby girl.
Apr 9
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Lara Williams
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March 2024
Tutoring & Mentoring
I am an experienced tutor, currently working as a Lecturer in Creative Writing at Manchester Metropolitan University.
Mar 20
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Lara Williams
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Nun Story
I was last night talking about the book Cloistered by the amazingly named Catherine Coldstream, a memoir about her years as a nun, and it made me think…
Mar 6
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Lara Williams
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February 2024
Fingernails
This week I’ve had three notable experiences with fingernails.
Feb 21
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Lara Williams
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Digital Detox
I’ve recently been listening to the podcast Untold: The Retreat, about an intensive form of meditation, called Vipassana, and those who became addicted…
Feb 14
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Lara Williams
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January 2024
Reality Television
I never used to watch reality television, but pregnancy changed that. My concentration, my ability to metabolise content at any meaningful level…
Jan 23
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December 2023
Meat
During the pandemic, when I was pregnant, but before I realised I was pregnant, I woke up one morning with a strong craving for chicken. At this point I…
Dec 20, 2023
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