CONTRIBUTOR SPOTLIGHT

Natasha MH

She kills with a smile and wounds with her eyes

David Todd McCarty
Ellemeno
Published in
12 min readJan 14, 2024

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Photo by Natasha MH

It’s taken me longer than it should have to write this introduction. Even though we communicate almost every day, I don’t really feel as if I know Natasha MH all that well. As she admitted previously, we did, in fact, talk on the phone for six hours once, which has to be some sort of record, at least for me, but I’m not sure how much I learned. Natasha is like that Billy Joel song. She reveals what she wants you to see. We’ve never met in person, but I would not be surprised if she can also kill with a smile and wound with her eyes. She has that in her. Of this, I am quite certain.

From what I gather, Natasha is an exceptionally interesting piece of work. She carries the air of privilege afforded someone with a famous father, but seems fairly grounded. She is multicultural in all the best ways, having lived on multiple continents for extended periods, immersing herself in the culture and making large swaths of it her own. She has tackled both academia, as well as corporate life, continually bucking whatever trend was prevailing. She is a proud, single, successful woman in a culture that remains wary of such things.

Natasha has multiple degrees and is close to finishing her doctorate (which she doesn’t like to talk about), but spends a…

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David Todd McCarty
Ellemeno

A cranky romantic searching for hope and humor. I tell stories. Most of them are true. I’m not at all interested in your outrage, but I do feel your pain.