I finished my miscarriage on a toilet
We don't talk about what happens in women's bodies or bathrooms.
Meg Conley
Hi, my name is Meg. I create Pocket Observatory, a not-for-profit attention reclamation project.
Built Environment
A Concise Chronicle of a Woman Who Cried at Home
What has crying in the home looked like over the centuries?
Cancer
My Friend Was Diagnosed with Stage 4 Cancer
I want you to know what it is like to sit in her home.
Motherhood
America Doesn’t Care About Mothers
I finally understand that help is not coming
Motherhood
My motherhood is a dirty fridge
Wait, let me start over. I mean my motherhood is like a dirty fridge. Hear me out.
I started my 30-day HOME Yoga journey 92 days ago.
I wasn’t very interested in the transcendental. I just wanted to feel like reality was a place worth being.
Childhood
Live with Regis and Kathie Lee!
I was a kid with an anxiety disorder. Regis Philbin was my (unlikely) hero
Platforms
Journalism Comes For Teenage Trauma and Triumph on TikTok
Internet culture has a kid consent problem
City Park, Denver
Today is the third day of protests in Denver.
What a Zoom Funeral Taught Me About Death
As my daughters and I stared at a livestream of an open casket, I realized death is always remote
Platforms
The Great Influencer Exodus
Prominent Instagram influencers are getting dragged for fleeing New York, showing their millions of followers what not to do during a pandemic
Cancer
There Is No Paycheck for Your Life’s Work
A pandemic reminds us that work-life balance was always out of reach
Childhood
My High School Was Full of Boys Like Alex Jones
On fact, fiction, and the origin stories we claim as our own
Home
Making a House a Home
I’ve lived in this home since you were born. Well. Not this house. I’ve lived in five houses since you were born. But each house was this home, the only world I could claim.
Childcare
Motherhood in America Is a Multilevel Marketing Scheme
Moms can’t hold this pyramid up much longer
A Mother of Three on the Picket Lines in Oakland
I wasn’t raised to rally but I also wasn’t raised to retreat.
Suffer the Little Children
Mothers have always crossed boundaries to save their kids
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