The Maybe Baby Archive
An organized catalog of every newsletter I've ever written
Welcome to the Maybe Baby archive! Whether you’re looking for writing on a general theme or an essay on a specific topic, hopefully the below tags can point you in the right direction. If you’re new around here, the sample platter highlights my most popular essays.
Being alive: Writing on navigating modern life, challenging popular narratives on how to live well, and seeing the bigger picture, or maybe the smaller one. Classic existential stuff!
Culture: Criticism that explores the zeitgeist, from pop culture ephemera to larger political currents and social norms.
Love & relationships: Writing (especially advice) on navigating romantic relationships—into them, out of them, and through them.
Parenthood: Everything I’ve written about having a kid, from wondering if I wanted one to the way it feels now that I do. Also includes advice and reflections on modern parenting.
Life online: Work that specifically concerns the internet, social media, technology and how it all shapes us.
Friendship & community: Newsletters that explore friendship (making, sustaining, breaking), shifting social dynamics, and how to be prosocial. Includes lots of Q&As about tricky friendship situations.
Mental health: Work that specifically concerns psychological wellbeing and how to navigate difficult times.
Fashion, beauty, & consumption: Mostly philosophical explorations of fashion, beauty, and style standards, but also some tangible tips and lessons.
Big decisions: Advice for life’s biggest transitions, from moving in with a partner, to pursuing alternative careers, to deciding where to live.
Celebrity: Criticism on fame and influence.
Writing (as a practice): Reflections on writing and advice for writers and other interested parties.
Feminism: Work that explores modern womanhood through the lens of sex, gender, and feminism (especially its failures).
Work: Advice on navigating career and an evolving relationship with labor.
News & politics: Explicitly political and news-based writing.
Documentation: Writing on compulsive record-keeping and its related anxieties.
New York: Anything related to the city I call home.
Free essays: All my Sunday essays available to read for free.
Graphs & theories: A special tag for matrices, diagrams, and invented definitions (i.e. my attempts to identify new phenomena).
15 things: My Friday weekly recommendations list. Tip: Scroll through these to find specific Recs of the Week (they’re previewed in the subtitles)!
Dear Danny: My beloved monthly advice podcast with the inimitable Daniel Nelson.
Dear Baby: My monthly advice column wherein I answer reader questions in long form.
Dear Babies: My monthly series in which I pose a question I received to readers instead of answering it myself.
Discussion threads: Times I’ve teed up a discussion regarding something that’s been on my mind or in the discourse.
Pop Culture pods: My occasional pop culture podcasts with friends.
Voice Notes: My regular solo podcast format wherein I explore topics that feel private or unfinished.
Guest pods: Times I’ve invited one-time guests on the podcast to discuss a single topic.
Favorite Things & other recs: My annual lists of favorite things and other recommendation roundups.
Find-a-Friend: My annual Find-a-Friend call-out where people link up in the comments.