Today’s episode is a conversation we recorded with writer and essayist Meghan Nesmith back in May. We’d been emailing back and forth about the big things — parenting, writing, work, life — and decided we wanted to just sit down and hash things out in real time. What are we doing here? What should we be doing? What is the value of work — emotionally, materially? We don’t come up with any answers, but it felt good to connect. We hope it feels good to listen and think about it too.
Meghan is a writer, editor, and obsessive living and working in Boston. She writes about motherhood, relationships, mental health, culture, and the boy band formerly known as One Direction. You can find her work online and in print in Man Repeller, The Globe and Mail, The Guardian, and more. As a content marketer, she’s worked with brands like Westin-Marriott, Slack, and Knixwear. You can find out more about Meghan at meghannesmith.com.
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Theme music is “It’s Time” by Scaricá Ricascá.
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In today’s episode:
- Orwell’s Roses by Rebecca Solnit
- Self-paced course, “Decolonization in Ireland“
- Forest schools
- Can’t Even by Anne Helen Petersen
- Parable of the Sower by Octavia Butler
- I Miss You When I Blink by Mary Laura Philpott, and our interview with her