Additional Writing

The Atlantic:

The Organization of Your Bookshelves Tells Its Own Story

The New York Times:

This Is How You Pick Up a Phone

The Millions:

Nora and the Jews What Does a ‘Sweeney Todd’ Revival Owe Us?

The New York Daily News:

Why Upper West Side Jews Must Unite on Behalf of the Homeless

The Washington Post:

Dear strangers, please stop telling me my active daughter might get hurt How to care for a nanny (so a nanny will care for you) Don't always believe your kid Don't Tell Mama Mama's Talking Soft

Scary Mommy:

Racism, Fear, And Elitism Shut Down My Neighborhood’s Homeless Shelter What Happened When A Homeless Shelter Moved Into My Upper Class City Neighborhood Call Me the Masked Avenger Jimmy, My Jimmy

Vela Magazine:

Contrast Study A Thing of Beauty The Worse That Threatens

Los Angeles Review of Books:

Angels and Demons and Daughters: On Hulu's The Act Darkness Visible, Light Ahead: On Mary Cregan's "The Scar" Your Wireless Network: Grappling With Hormones, On: Aroused, by Randi Hutter Epstein

Longreads:

Waiting for Alice Naked City House Un-American Talking to Big Baby It Isn't That Shocking City on a Hill The Problem of Pain

Electric Literature:

The Awning (or: Trauma, Storytelling, and Time Travel)

Salon:

Was The Writer of "Baby, It's Cold Outside" An Early Feminist? Managing Pain Management

SELF

Elective

The Offing:

Suggestions for Managing Chronic Pain (When You’ve Shredded a Hip Ligament or Something)

Hippocampus Magazine:

Circle Where It Hurts

Healthy Women:

Perimenopause is like the Weather

Oldster:

Limelight

Motherwell:

My tangled relationship with my daughter's hair The Lilac Grove How to Break a Bone and Heal a Mother

Brain, Child Magazine:

There's a Ghost in my Neighborhood

The Rumpus:

An Actress Recommends Five Films

The Lit Pub:

Tennessee Williams Puts Women In Their Place

The Toast:

42 Steps to Conquering Executive Function Disorder in 68 Steps How to Stock an Independent Bookstore

The Nervous Breakdown:

Last Night I Had a Dream

The Establishment:

Post-Operative Instructions

Purple Clover

How to Dress for a Biopsy

Ravishly

The Trust Game Teaching My Child What I Never Learned Growing Up

Parent Map

Searching for the Holiday Tree On the Absurdity of Ballet Class for Toddlers

For Her:

What a Lifetime of Rejection Taught Me About Success

The Reject Pile:

Form Rejection Letter Jarred

Word Riot:

Never Give Up

Book Reviews at Off The Shelf:

The Gothic Sensation Novel: A Review of "The Woman in White" Making Depression Respectable: A Review of "Darkness Visible" What is it About the Rich? A Review of "The Talented Mr. Ripley" The Vampire That Hollywood Missed:  A Review of "Fevre Dream"  A Love Letter to A Lost World: A Review of "Auntie Mame" The Real Christopher Robin Speaks Out: A Review of "The Enchanted Places" A Brief Ode To a Beautiful Marriage: A Review of "About Alice"  Portrait of France: A Review of "How to Travel Incognito" A Refugee Finds a Home in Picture Books

Mothers Always Write:

Don't Tell My Daughter She Looks Like Me In Flight

Sweatpants and Coffee

Hang on to Your Hope Hysteria (aka "Hysteria-scopy") That Sounds Familiar

Club Mid at Scary Mommy:

In Stereo Time's Square How to be Forty in Six Simple Steps We Don't Have to Change At All Bus Stop Communion Ten Ways Being a Dancer Prepared Me for Motherhood My Mother Taught Me to Write It Down! Mom's Wedding Date

Huffington Post:

Is "Pretty" a Bad Word? In Defense of Posting Pretty Pictures Please Let Go Is This the Little Girl I Carried? Autumn Vigil "The Princess Bride" You Didn't Meet in the Movie The Birth of The Sensation Novel (originally published at Off the Shelf) Six People You See On A NYC Playground The Real Christopher Robin Speaks Out (originally published at Off The Shelf) Tutu Much, Tutu Soon

The Manifest-Station:

More Faithful Than I Intended to Be

Role Reboot:

So You Think You Can Dance?

Coffee + Crumbs:

Pick-Up Old Times

Nanny Magazine:

It Doesn't Ruin Everything Six Books to Read to Your Night Owls A Nanny's Limits, A Nanny's Love

Mamalode:

The Roles We Play Idle Reading

Mamapedia:

Haunted

Blunt Moms:

How (Not) to Potty Train at the Metropolitan Museum of Art It is Not Fated and There Is No Reason Don't Call My Daughter A Princess. Just Don't.

Erma Bombeck Humor Writers:

The Haircut

Medium

The Neighbors Stole Our Jagermeister (A Cautionary Tale)