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NYC reading Monday 3/2/15
Read more: NYC reading Monday 3/2/15It’s Sunday night, and I’m making chicken broth and nursing a hot toddy while the snow (and/or freezing rain) continues to fall in New York. (Lousy Smarch weather.) Tomorrow, though, I’ll be out at Niagara Bar to read my writing at the Miss Manhattan non-fiction reading series! I’m excited to share some of my work along with…
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What would you write about if you weren’t afraid
Read more: What would you write about if you weren’t afraidHappy New Year, one and all. This isn’t so much a post as an appreciation of the following 2009 interview between Mary Karr and The Paris Review. I’ve been reading (in some cases, re-reading) a great deal of memoir over the past few weeks, to get a better sense of the kind of structure that…
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Motherless by Choice at Christmas
Read more: Motherless by Choice at Christmas“Perhaps I’m not asking whether estrangement is right or wrong, but instead: how can I truly celebrate togetherness and kinship and love without a mother in my life?” This isn’t an easy time of year to be estranged from someone, even if you’ve made that decision purposefully. I write about the complicated feelings that come…
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Intermezzo
Read more: IntermezzoI’ve disappeared again! This will happen from time to time, I assure you. My brain will decide that right now the most important thing to focus on is my work, or job hunting, or dating, or eating well and working out. As such, writing will be shuffled around among all those other pursuits and will…
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Key Issues
Read more: Key IssuesThursday morning, I remembered my glasses, my umbrella, my book for the train (Love Me Back, by Merritt Tierce) – and almost walked out without my keys. Fortunately I caught the door just in time before it locked behind me. An ordinary careless moment, except for some of the anxiety it triggered, which kept pace with me as…
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Reblogs and Q&A!
Read more: Reblogs and Q&A!Hello, HuffPost and Freshly Pressed readers! I’m very honored by the attention I’ve received after publishing Why did this happen? – it was selected as an editor’s pick by Freshly Pressed, and is now reblogged over at HuffPost Women. I’m even more floored by all the feedback I’m getting directly from you guys. Your comments…
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Why did this happen? Estranging myself from my mother.
Read more: Why did this happen? Estranging myself from my mother.Why did this happen? There is no answer to that question. There are too many answers to that question. If your childhood was unhappy, if there was someone who hurt you when their role was to protect you, you may never know why it was that way. It may not be possible to reconstruct how…
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How to Predict the Future
Read more: How to Predict the FutureHow to Predict the Future I’ve got a new piece up over on The Toast’s Gal Science column this morning about climate change, which aims to unpack some of the jargon you see around this topic. It’s an intimidating topic! It can seem overwhelming to consider the cascading effects our activity is having on the…
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Contact form, translations, and some thoughts on forgiveness
Read more: Contact form, translations, and some thoughts on forgivenessHello all! I had a wonderful and extremely busy weekend, with both a favorite cousin and a dear friend in town, and am just now getting back into the swing of things here. First and foremost, I wanted to note that I have added a contact form on the About page of this site. Inquiries sent…
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My Interview About Being Motherless By Choice On HuffPost Live
Read more: My Interview About Being Motherless By Choice On HuffPost LiveYesterday morning I spoke with Caitlyn Becker on HuffPost Live’s “What’s Trending” segment about being motherless by choice. You can watch the interview in the video embedded at the bottom of the original HP post here. “What’s Trending” covers the stories capturing their readers’ attention. Thank you so much to everyone at HuffPost for giving…
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