Catherine LaSota

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Catherine LaSota is a writer, creativity coach, and community builder. She is founder of the Resort writing community and host of the Cabana Chats podcast on writing & community, as well as founder of the LIC Reading Series (2015-2020). She lives with her husband and two young children in New York, and you can follow her adventures in higher education, bartending, SCUBA diving, and more @catherinelasota and @TheResortLIC.

Stories

Cover Photo: A photo collage of the author with her family
New York, I Love You—But Are You Bringing Me Down?

What parts of me are still fed by my New York environment? Are other parts of me getting hungrier? For more, or for something else entirely?

Jan 26, 2023
Cover Photo: A dark red cocktail in a rocks glass garnished with a cherry
How My Maker’s Manhattan Made Me

I felt I had something to prove. But the Manhattan, unchanged since its nineteenth-century origins, has nothing to prove.

Oct 04, 2022
Cover Photo: Freestocks.org/StockSnap
Two Freelance Artists and a Baby

“A baby has two superpowers: the ability to suck productive time out of a day and the ability to bleed a wallet dry.”

Sep 13, 2017
Cover Photo: Tallulah Pomeroy
A Room of One’s Own: Sharing (Brain) Space with My Baby

“My former home office, with its glorious door separating it from our bedroom, is now our son’s domain.”

Jul 18, 2017
Cover Photo: Tallulah Pomeroy
Postpartum Tea: Taking Care While Changing Identity

“It is a bewildering and lonely thing to be so attached to another human and also feel so adrift and so alone.”

May 26, 2017
Cover Photo: Tallulah Pomeroy
The Productive Artist-Mother

How becoming a parent helped me set more reasonable creative goals.

Mar 28, 2017
Cover Photo: Photo by D. Billy / flickr
Becoming an Artist and a Parent in NYC

“In many ways, I’m back where I started—except now I’m almost twenty years older, and I have a kid.”

Jan 31, 2017
Cover Photo: Azzy/photo by Catherine LaSota
Annie Dillard, Azzy, and Me: On Motherhood and Loss

“I was left dazed and sad and missing my cat while tending to a newborn.”

Dec 21, 2016
Cover Photo: photo by Quinn Dombrowski/flickr
How to Be a (Sober) Pregnant Woman in America

“Having been alive as a woman for several decades in the United States, I was not shocked by the control being exerted on women’s bodies.”

Jul 06, 2016
Cover Photo: Tallulah Pomeroy
15 Minutes with Gabriel

Kayaking, Bill Murray, and Christmas trees in New York.

Dec 22, 2015