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Lydia Kiesling is a freelance culture writer and the author of the novels The Golden State and Mobility, a national best seller. She has been writing essays for the Cut since 2016.

  1. first person
    Manage a Political Campaign Just to Feel Something AgainNational politics made me despair. Then my friend ran for office, and I unleashed my inner political animal.
  2. parenting
    What Is It This Time?When my younger child recently woke up barfing, I tried to figure out if she had RSV, flu, COVID, hand, foot, and mouth disease, or yet another thing.
  3. the future
    The Return of My Garbage SelfEverything feels so close now, including her.
  4. kindercares
    Can I Talk to You About Preschool for All?It wasn’t easy, but after years of organizing, my county in Oregon will have universal early-childhood education.
  5. write it
    What Drives Me to Write?I’ve been thinking more about how and why I want to express the things that feel so urgent.
  6. first person
    Who Knew Meal Planning Could Make Me Feel This Way?I’m not a good cook, but I am a determined one.
  7. the low hum
    The Whale in the RoomWhat can I tell my daughters about climate disaster?
  8. let’s stay together
    I Met My Husband When I Was 22 and WildHow did I make the decision that truly mattered?
  9. q&a
    She Joked About Writing the Great Zambian Novel. Then She Did It.Namwali Serpell and I spoke about day jobs, novel-writing, mortality, and grief.
  10. it’s all relative
    What I Want to Hand Down to My Daughters, and What I Don’tIt would seem that family is inescapably about inheritances.
  11. review
    Did Hype Kill the ‘Cat Person’ Book?Maybe it never had a chance.
  12. first person
    We Were in the Kitchen When We Heard Christine Blasey FordMy two young daughters, their dad, and me.
  13. first person
    Becoming a Woman Who Yells at Her ChildrenNo other transition in my life has shocked me more.
  14. aspiration
    The Evolution of a Mormon Mommy BloggerFor the blogger formerly known as Nat the Fat Rat, the label no longer quite fits.
  15. new mom
    What Does Being Pregnant Feel Like? Part I“Sometimes I felt enormously beautiful, like Venus herself arising from the sea, and sometimes I felt just enormous.”
  16. parenthood
    The Crazy-Making Sophistication of Modern At-Home Pregnancy TestsHow forces have conspired to create the “pee-stick fugue state.”
  17. first person
    Throwing Away the Most Beautiful Dress I Ever OwnedAnd what I realized once I finally got rid of it.