A Maybe Baby sample platter

If you’d like to get familiar with Maybe Baby, here are some of my most popular newsletters (in reverse chronological order):

#217: Follow your (non-specific dreams): On the unlikely advantage of not knowing what you want

#200: Hey from oblivion: On the head trip of motherhood

#180: Against self-analysis: On the risk of over-therapizing ourselves

#176: Accounting for taste: On the problem with following trends (a followup to this Emma Chamberlain commentary)

#175: Enjoy! Enjoy! Enjoy!: On the transcendent & terrifying possibility of forgetting our lives

#170: Like a mother: On my brutal and beautiful entry into motherhood (ps. here’s my birth story if you’re a freak for those)

#147: Who’s allowed to want kids?: On coming to grips with wanting to be a parent

#123: On cosmetic procedures and the limits of "destigmatization”: On the problem with normalizing getting “work done”

#96: Why do we aspire to live alone?: On overcoming rampant individualism

#95: Are you a baby? A litmus test: On the difference between “knowing your limits” and being afraid

#89: The death of sex: On how sexless everything feels these days (here’s a followup relating this to Trump)

#80: The acid DMs: On how an old acid trip and what it keeps teaching me

#71: Always watching: On the problem with surveilling yourself via cameras

#70: When I was an influencer: On what it means to “sell out” these days

#53: Cope culture: On the lie imbedded in “self-improvement culture”

#45: Rage against self-checkout: On the trick of modern so-called conveniences

#42: Are you nice or kind?: On the key difference between the two

#24: The Emily Ratajkowski effect: On third-wave feminism and its problems

Thanks for reading,
Haley