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interviews with caregivers on sustaining creative work

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"I think the creative brain and the caring brain are essentially the same"

a good creatures interview with TOUCHED OUT author Amanda Montei on caregiving and creativity and creating new narratives around mothering and…

Sep 14 •

"creativity happens not just alongside but within the duties of motherhood"

a good creatures interview with writer Robin LaVoie on parenting a child with nonverbal autism, seeing caregiving and creativity as intertwined, and…

Aug 31 •

"caring for yourself as a caregiver is a necessary and hard job in today’s world"

writer and podcaster Stephanie Jucar Cooley on Waldorf education and slow living, acknowledging the support we have in caregiving, and getting…

Aug 17 •

"understand that there will be setbacks but also gifts"

a good creature interview with writer Sarah Wheeler about treating her ADHD like another dependent, keeping a rejection leaderboard, and paying…

Aug 3 •

"any act of making, no matter how small, is valuable and meaningful"

an interview with writer Susannah Nevison about working in small bursts of time and cultivating kindness in a writing process

Jul 20 •

what a mom wants, what a mom needs

because we can do better than brunch + real ways to support moms & an Ada Limón poem that always makes me cry

May 9 •

some notes on running away from home

sharing the domestic and caregiving labor + that Maggie Smith essay, plus lots of good reads from around the internet

Apr 5 •

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