Nina MacNamara – A Collection of Banal Essays

Life and Death More

Oops! I Did it Again!

I should write a terrible Netflix Christmas movie called The Christmas Kitten.

Nina MacNamara
Dec 16, 2022 2 min read

I’m Too Relieved to Brag

Heard any news this week?

Nina MacNamara
Nov 12, 2022 2 min read

Other Lives

Kind of like Sliding Doors, but far less Gwyneth.

Nina MacNamara
Aug 17, 2022 2 min read

Home

Oh, home, let me come home Home is wherever I'm with you – Edward Sharpe and the Magnetic Zeros

Nina MacNamara
Aug 10, 2022 1 min read

Pop Culture More

Movies I Watched (and Rewatched) This Year

Spoiler alert: I didn't like most of them.

Nina MacNamara
Dec 27, 2022 6 min read

Your House is Burning Down

You want a bucket of water? Sorry, none here.

Nina MacNamara
Nov 27, 2022 2 min read

Stop Trying to Make the Wife Guy Happen, Ok?

In honor of Mean Girls Day (October 3), I’m co-opting a quote to rant about this stupid thing. ...

Nina MacNamara
Oct 3, 2022 3 min read

A Modern Woman Watches Porn for the First Time

It goes about as well as you would expect. TW: discussion of sex, porn, feminism, and an anti-capitalist tirade....

Nina MacNamara
Apr 25, 2022 10 min read

It Is Finished

I've been waiting almost ten years to make this post.

Nina MacNamara
Dec 19, 2022 45 sec read

Bronner’s CHRISTMas Wonderland – Frankenmuth, MI

I haven't been that good this year.

Nina MacNamara
Dec 12, 2022 56 sec read

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Five Terrible (and 2 Good) Gifts to Give Your Writer Friend

Writers HATE these 5 gifts! (I should know! I've gotten them all!)

Nina MacNamara
Dec 8, 2022 6 min read

BestMaze

Have a corn-y good time.

Nina MacNamara
Oct 23, 2022 31 sec read

All Stories

Seeds in the Garden

"Hold fast to dreams / For when dreams go / Life is a barren field / Frozen with snow." Langston Hughes

Nina MacNamara
Oct 17, 2022 4 min read

Weeds in the Garden

It has to end somewhere, might as well be with me.

Nina MacNamara
Sep 26, 2022 1 min read

Dinosauria at the Detroit Zoo

Their sight is based on movement.

Nina MacNamara
Sep 12, 2022 38 sec read

Road Trip: Minneapolis

Ch-ch-ch-cherry bomb!

Nina MacNamara
Aug 30, 2022 53 sec read

Stress

I’ve had an eye twitch for the last 4 days. It started in my left eye, and now my right eye...

Nina MacNamara
Aug 20, 2022 16 sec read

Selective Focus Photography of Gift Boxes

Version 3.8

Am I wiser? Or just less likely to give a shit?

Nina MacNamara
Jun 18, 2022 43 sec read

Things I Miss: Caffeine

I had to give up caffeine after my epilepsy diagnosis. A few months after that, my neurologist asked how much caffeine...

Nina MacNamara
May 25, 2022 1 min read

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A Reminder or Two as Your Reproductive Rights are Stripped Away

This isn't about us. Or them.

Nina MacNamara
May 12, 2022 2 min read

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Let The Next Phase Begin

I’m not ready to officially announce it, but today I began the process of moving. Over the next few weeks, I’ll...

Nina MacNamara
Apr 11, 2022 23 sec read

More Advice To A Parent (from a Continued Non-Parent)

Another parent, another letter. This time, more panic.

Nina MacNamara
Apr 9, 2022 4 min read

A Bitter Spring: Now an Audiobook! Now there's more than one way to consume my prose! Read More

How Not to Be an Asshole It's ok. We're all trying to be better. Read More

Rest in Peace, Roland Saying goodbye to the world's nicest (and most expensive) cat. Read More