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My Mother Risked It All on the Beanie Baby Boom

She was a Mormon homemaker who just wanted to take part in the market economy. Then it all came crashing down.

8 min readMar 19, 2021

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Finding My Family’s Bones

How visiting Appalachia helped me begin to understand my family

7 min readMar 13, 2021

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Motherhood in America Is a Multilevel Marketing Scheme

Stay-at-home moms can’t hold this pyramid up much longer

6 min readDec 7, 2020

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On Protecting Historic Character

My neighborhood’s fight for integration changed America. Now white neighbors are suing a Black pastor over his social justice work.

17 min readMay 18, 2021

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Murder Among the Mormon Men

The Mark Hofmann story isn’t about a Mormon man, it’s about Mormon men.

6 min readMar 11, 2021

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Murder Among the Mormon Men

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Power Grids Are Failing All Over America

We can no longer trust our nation’s infrastructure to keep our families safe, happy, and healthy

8 min readMar 3, 2021

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Power Grids Are Failing All Over America

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People Said I Was Special. Really, I Just Had ADHD.

The diagnosis that came decades later than it should have

7 min readFeb 26, 2021

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People Said I Was Special. Really, I Just Had ADHD.

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Parenting Is Hard. Paying C-List Celebrities to Talk to Your Children is Easy.

Cameo has been a surprising lifesaver during this endless pandemic

6 min readFeb 17, 2021

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Parenting Is Hard. Paying C-List Celebrities to Talk to Your Children is Easy.

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What Happened to the GOP Being the ‘Pro-Family’ Party?

Senators Mike Lee and Marco Rubio are for bringing children into this world, but against helping them survive it

5 min readFeb 5, 2021

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What Happened to the GOP Being the ‘Pro-Family’ Party?

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It’s Alright to Be Wrong

Being wrong doesn’t mean you’re not alright, it just means you’re not all-knowing.

4 min readJan 27, 2021

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Meg Conley

Meg Conley

✒️Women’s work, economic justice and the home. Work in Slate, GEN, Medium + my newsletter, homeculture. Subscribe at megconley.com

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