Literary Mama: Too Many Children

Ona Gritz

Ona Gritz is a prize-winning poet and the author of two children’s books. Her essays have been published in numerous anthologies and journals, most recently The Utne Reader, More magazine and The Bellingham Review, where she placed second for the 2008 Annie Dillard Award for Creative Nonfiction. She has received five Pushcart Prize nominations for her work. Ona lives in Hoboken, New Jersey with her teenage son, Ethan.

Website: http://www.onagritz.com

Books by Ona Gritz

Columns

Date	Title	Section
Feb 9, 2013	Too Many Children	Columns Doing it Differently
Dec 8, 2012	After Sandy	Columns Doing it Differently
Oct 20, 2012	The House on Sunnyside Street	Columns Doing it Differently
Aug 11, 2012	Gossip’s Girl	Doing it Differently
Jun 3, 2012	Forever Young	Doing it Differently
Apr 7, 2012	Every Mother’s Son	Doing it Differently
Feb 12, 2012	My Double Life	Doing it Differently
Dec 18, 2011	More Thursdays	Doing it Differently
Oct 16, 2011	At Home with a Teen	Doing it Differently
Aug 20, 2011	Unfinished Overseas	Doing it Differently
May 29, 2011	Staying a City Mouse	Doing it Differently
Jan 29, 2011	The Chapter on Being Fourteen	Doing it Differently
Jan 2, 2011	What Lies Beneath	Doing it Differently
Dec 5, 2010	You’re My Mom. I Love You. But That Doesn’t Mean I Want to Hang Out With You.	Doing it Differently
Nov 7, 2010	Guardian Angels of the Staircase	Doing it Differently
Oct 9, 2010	But, in Things. . .	Doing it Differently
Sep 12, 2010	The Bootlegged Path to San Marco	Doing it Differently
Aug 16, 2010	My Easy Child	Doing it Differently
Jul 24, 2010	Dinner for Three	Doing it Differently
Jun 19, 2010	Love Always From Ruth	Doing it Differently
May 21, 2010	It Takes a Village	Doing it Differently
Apr 25, 2010	Mothering the Muse	Doing it Differently
Mar 28, 2010	Legacy	Doing it Differently
Feb 28, 2010	A Raw Ordeal	Doing it Differently
Jan 30, 2010	Photographs and Memories	Doing it Differently
Jan 3, 2010	Same Difference	Doing it Differently
Dec 6, 2009	We Are Family	Doing it Differently
Nov 7, 2009	Meeting Hate Face to Face	Doing it Differently
Oct 10, 2009	Kitchen Table Judaism	Doing it Differently
Sep 12, 2009	Something Old/Something New	Doing it Differently
Aug 15, 2009	Guy Night	Doing it Differently
Jul 19, 2009	Imperfect Terms	Doing it Differently
Jun 20, 2009	Live at Maxwell’s	Doing it Differently
May 31, 2009	Rooting for the Home Team	Doing it Differently
Apr 25, 2009	The Sacred Nylabone of Now	Doing it Differently
Mar 28, 2009	Hail to the Chief	Doing it Differently
Feb 28, 2009	Our Houseful	Doing it Differently
Feb 7, 2009	Game Face	Doing it Differently
Jan 10, 2009	Happiness, Apparently, Is a Warm Gun	Doing it Differently
Dec 7, 2008	Puppy Love	Doing it Differently
Nov 1, 2008	Getting to Yes	Doing it Differently
Sep 27, 2008	Another Mama for Obama	Doing it Differently
Aug 24, 2008	Hello Muddah	Doing it Differently
Jun 22, 2008	Sweet Child of Mine	Doing it Differently
May 18, 2008	Reading on My Mother’s Behalf	Doing it Differently
Apr 13, 2008	Frida and Me	Doing it Differently
Mar 15, 2008	Life, Death, and Middle School	Doing it Differently
Feb 10, 2008	Life in Parentheses	Doing it Differently
Jan 12, 2008	The Many Faces of Help	Doing it Differently
Dec 2, 2007	Still Life with Shoes	Doing it Differently
Nov 4, 2007	That Other Kind of Waking	Doing it Differently
Oct 7, 2007	Better a Diamond	Doing it Differently
Sep 9, 2007	Vistas	Doing it Differently
Jul 29, 2007	Difficult Terrain	Doing it Differently
Jun 17, 2007	The Part That Stays	Doing it Differently
May 20, 2007	Down the Basement Steps	Doing it Differently
Apr 22, 2007	The Formula For Letting Go	Doing it Differently
Mar 25, 2007	The Stepfather Question	Doing it Differently
Feb 4, 2007	Phasing Out the Honeymoon Phase	Doing it Differently
Jan 7, 2007	Noticeable	Doing it Differently
Dec 3, 2006	The Imagined Child	Doing it Differently
Nov 5, 2006	Hair Envy	Doing it Differently
Sep 10, 2006	Facing the City	Doing it Differently
Jul 16, 2006	Raising the Ruling Class	Doing it Differently
May 21, 2006	Good Sports	Doing it Differently
Apr 10, 2006	Coming Home	Doing it Differently
Feb 13, 2006	Beautiful Things	Doing it Differently
Dec 18, 2005	Doing it Differently	Doing it Differently

Contributions

Date	Title	Section
Sep 5, 2009	The Muse Gets Angry Before Leaving for School	Poetry
Mar 8, 2008	Phases	Poetry
Nov 26, 2006	This	Poetry
Jan 15, 2006	Home, I Say	Poetry
Dec 14, 2005	Nighttime in the Country of New Mothers	Poetry
Jul 26, 2005	The Night We Decide on Divorce	Poetry
Jun 20, 2005	The Impatient Mother	Poetry
Dec 7, 2004	Shared Custody	Poetry
Nov 24, 2004	Testing the Seams	Poetry
Jul 25, 2004	Family Bed	Poetry
Jun 29, 2004	Boy Child	Poetry
Jan 29, 2004	Mothering by Scent	Poetry

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