#22: In favor of recklessness - by Haley Nahman

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I think about death a lot. Sometimes I imagine a doctor telling me the source of my migraines is a large, metastatic tumor. Other times I imagine someone pushing me in front of a train for no reason. Most often I concoct freak accidents in my head as I walk placidly down the street—a horrible slip on a wet sidewalk (“Who would have thought she could die from that?”); a perilous fall through a restaurant’s cellar door; head trauma from a hammer dropped haplessly through construction scaffolding by a worker who had to sneeze.

#22: In favor of recklessness Haley Nahman Sep 06, 2020 37 39 1 Share If you love Maybe Baby, consider becoming a paying subscriber. For $5/mo , you’ll gain access to my monthly advice column, Dear Baby, as well as my Tuesday weekly podcast. Thanks for the support! Good morning! Welcome to September, which I feel compelled to clarify does not actually spell the end of summer per everyone’s Instagram captions. Fall doesn’t officially start until September 22nd! For reasons I can’t articulate, I die on this hill every time a season changes, although I can admit it feels less relevant this year.

#22: In favor of recklessness - by Haley Nahman

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