Archive - Following the Thread

On ambivalence and Rachel Cusk

Jun 21 •

Mia Nakaji Monnier

Notes from Knoxville, Tennessee

On being away from Los Angeles this week

Jun 13 •

Mia Nakaji Monnier

Our first nights apart

Jun 6 •

Mia Nakaji Monnier

May 2025

Haunted by film

On the discomfort of stepping between worlds

May 30 •

Mia Nakaji Monnier

How to pay attention

On adjusting focus, from my child to the world

May 23 •

Mia Nakaji Monnier

How not to outgrow magic

On watching Ghibli movies as a parent

May 16 •

Mia Nakaji Monnier

Cliches of motherhood

Who are we, in the face of an experience so profound and ordinary, to think we can say it better?

May 9 •

Mia Nakaji Monnier

What we find in the garden

As I introduce my toddler to the world, I encounter myself

May 3 •

Mia Nakaji Monnier

November 2023

On babies and time

With a baby, time moves at multiple speeds

Nov 9, 2023 •

Mia Nakaji Monnier

February 2021

All this middle

Trying new ways of writing and living

Feb 26, 2021 •

Mia Nakaji Monnier

November 2020

Small, beautiful things

Not because they make everything better

Nov 2, 2020 •

Mia Nakaji Monnier

October 2020

Turning over stones

What to say about anxiety and depression and what to leave unspoken

Oct 9, 2020 •

Mia Nakaji Monnier

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