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Amy Lane Carst

Judgment Day at the DMV

Emily looks around the dull gray room, a monotone hum buzzing in her ears. She sizes up the other people waiting for their number to be…

Feb 6, 2023

Judgment Day at the DMV

Feb 6, 2023

What is the State of Your Proverbial House?

Imagine that you are walking up a steep, winding road to a solitary house perched atop a hill. In this house is your entire life, every…

Feb 1, 2023

What is the State of Your Proverbial House?

Feb 1, 2023

Why Is It So Hard to Appreciate What We Have?

Twenty five years ago, while still living in my Pennsylvania hometown, any reference to Vermont filled me with longing. As a child, my dad…

Jan 27, 2023

Why Is It So Hard to Appreciate What We Have?

Jan 27, 2023

How to Become Laid-back and Chill AF

If you’re reading this article, it’s likely that you do not currently identify as laid-back and chill AF. In that case, you’ve come to the…

Jan 26, 2023

How to Become Laid-back and Chill AF

Jan 26, 2023

Listening to Our Human Minds and Our Animal Bodies

Besides language, the primary difference between humans and other animals is our capacity to plan for (and worry about) the long-term…

Jan 25, 2023

Listening to Our Human Minds and Our Animal Bodies

Jan 25, 2023

What Makes a Good Life?

In October 2020 I deleted my Facebook account, which had long been my platform of choice for distributing my largely essay-style writing…

Jan 24, 2023

What Makes a Good Life?

Jan 24, 2023

The Next Time You Encounter a Problem, Ask Yourself, “What Would My 90-Year-Old Self Do?”

Currently and quite unexpectedly, I am hosting Marianne Landre Goldscheider, an 88-year-old German woman who fled the Nazi regime as a…

Sep 24, 2020

The Next Time You Encounter a Problem, Ask Yourself, “What Would My 90-Year-Old Self Do?”

Sep 24, 2020

My Five-Phase Cycle of Life and Why I Will Never be Rich

I love to write privately and publicly; privately because I can write stream of consciousness without worrying about anybody else seeing it…

Sep 2, 2020

My Five-Phase Cycle of Life and Why I Will Never be Rich

Sep 2, 2020

Wild Child

My mind was just as fettered by the racist structures bestowed upon the children of the 80s and 90s as anyone’s. Racism was built into…

Apr 27, 2019

Wild Child

Apr 27, 2019

Are My Kids Black?

This Thanksgiving we were given a gift from the past. A family secret that once brought shame, now brings joy.

Nov 29, 2017

Are My Kids Black?

Nov 29, 2017

Amy Lane Carst

Amy Lane Carst

I am a writer, traveler, and passionate advocate for human rights. Connect with me here and on my blog at https://www.mildlycurious.com

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