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Creative Nonfiction
2013
May 11 Nihari
May 11 Frozen Concentrate
Apr 13 Liver Nights
Apr 13 Sunday Visit
Apr 13 Things That People Say
Mar 9 Ex Utero; A Postpartum Notebook
Mar 9 Mother’s Milk
Mar 9 Clean Start
Feb 9 Kindergarten Pick-Up
Feb 9 Bloom Where You’re Planted
Jan 12 Underwater
Jan 12 Braided Love
2012
Dec 8 Africa or Disney World?
Dec 8 Notes From a Napkin
Nov 10 Wry Neck
Nov 10 In Defense of the Rat
Oct 14 Good to Go
Oct 14 Memorial Day
Sep 8 In the Wild Without Child: One Mother’s Invitation to Self
Sep 8 Dr Dude
Aug 11 The Deeps
Aug 11 Spinning
Jul 8 Kissing the Dark Balloon
Jul 8 Crossing the Milky Way
Jun 9 Writing a Father
Jun 9 Dinner of My Dreams
May 12 Unwrapping the Gift
Feb 12 Dutch Elm
Feb 12 Calendar
2011
Dec 11 Driving Lessons
Oct 9 Dare To Love
Oct 9 Natural Family Planning
Aug 13 Going Down to the Water
Jun 11 Once More to Wire Lake
May 7 In My Mother’s Garden
Apr 10 Spent
Feb 13 The Garden Party
Jan 8 A Boy Like Mine
2010
Dec 12 Woman Overboard
Oct 9 A Baby’s Cry
Oct 9 As Long As It Takes
Oct 9 Unbraided
Sep 12 The Tipping Point
Sep 12 Perdition
Aug 7 The Words For It
Aug 7 Sustenance
Jul 10 The Summer of Broken Things
Jul 10 Talismans of the Whirlpool
Jun 19 A Letter Never Written, Never Sent
Jun 19 The Tangle River
May 8 Wanted
May 8 Changing Places
Apr 25 Insights
Apr 25 And I Am The Baseball
Mar 14 The Name Game
Mar 14 Dead and Almost Buried
Mar 14 Mama, Mama, Can’t You See?
Feb 13 Cry, Baby
Feb 13 How to be a Schizophrenogenic Mother
Feb 13 Latching On
Jan 10 Call Me, Ishmael
2009
Dec 6 Christmas Eve at St. Clement
Dec 6 Trap Door
Nov 7 Squirrel For Dinner
Nov 7 I Am A Bad Mother
Oct 12 Third Baby
Oct 12 Inconceivable
Sep 12 Finding My Voice
Sep 12 House of Stone
Sep 12 Swimming Lessons
Sep 12 Drifting To Shore
Aug 8 One Eye Laughing
Aug 8 Leaving My Kids in the Dark
Aug 8 Summons
Jul 12 Fair Division
Jul 12 Nursing Johnny Depp
Jul 12 Beautiful Friend
Jun 13 Advice From My Father
Jun 13 Night Moves
Jun 13 Discarded
May 7 Love and Laundry
May 7 Mom Takes the Slow Road
Apr 11 Teenagers in Spring
Apr 11 The Forward Motion of an Accidental Death
Mar 8 Kindergarten Season
Mar 8 Bodies of Water
Feb 7 I’d Rather Die by Ice Than by Fire
Feb 7 A Tale of Two Brothers
Feb 7 Arkansas Time
Jan 10 Unassisted
Jan 10 The Loss of Meaningful Things
Jan 10 Nanny
2008
Dec 28 Born of the Dragon
Dec 28 Lice Season
Dec 28 Searching for the Sweet
Dec 13 Getting There
Dec 13 Lala
Dec 13 Seeing in the Dark
Nov 9 Marooned
Nov 9 Surfacing
Oct 12 Unexpecting
Oct 12 Girl Feelings
Sep 14 More Than a Boy
Sep 14 A Mother and a Daughter on the Subject of Men
Aug 10 The Color of Alone
Aug 10 Holding On
Aug 10 Where the World Is
Jun 15 Choosing Daddy
Jun 15 A Tree House of Her Own
Jun 15 Pendulum
May 11 Walking Our Mothers
May 11 Girl-Shy
May 11 A Summer’s Day: Mother to Child
Apr 13 Leaving Neverland
Apr 13 Erosion
Mar 8 Peeling Back the Truth
Mar 8 Varanasi
Feb 10 The Free Range Bionicle
Jan 12 Unprepared for Fury
Jan 12 Dear Em
2007
Dec 9 Human Behavior Experiment
Dec 9 Admissions Roulette
Nov 18 A Kite in November
Nov 18 Our Choice
Oct 14 Testing: One, Two, Three?
Oct 14 Falling to My Knees
Oct 14 Wanting, Waiting
Sep 16 Losing Thomas
Sep 9 Wonder Mold Mother
Aug 12 One True Note
Aug 12 Mom Memory
Jul 8 Love and Money
Jul 7 Bitter, Sweet
Jun 10 I’m Bored
Jun 9 Absolution
May 12 Brooklyn Bridge
May 12 13 More Ways of Looking at a Blackbird
Apr 8 Kyoko’s Mirror
Apr 8 Wedding, Dress, Boy, Pretty
Mar 10 Put the Blender on Frappe
Mar 10 Judgment Day
Mar 10 My Wild Child
Feb 10 The Eyes Have It
Feb 6 Rearview Mirror
Jan 16 Break
Jan 16 Learning to Lie Still
2006
Dec 15 What to Tell the Children
Dec 15 Bringing on Baby: A Journal of Augmentation
Nov 20 Neighbor
Nov 19 Not Alone
Oct 26 Baby Fat
Oct 26 A Good Sense of Timing
Sep 21 The Boys and Baby
Sep 20 See You at the Movies
Aug 14 Prenatal Guru to the Stars
Jul 15 The Green King
Jul 15 Eleven
Jun 15 Down into the Mine
Jun 15 The Great, Death-Defying Father
Jun 15 Poker Face
May 14 Arrowhead Hunting
May 14 Infant Absolution
Apr 18 Our Son, the Ring Bearer
Mar 24 Failure to Thrive
Mar 24 Normal
Feb 18 A Working Mother’s Day
Feb 16 French Toast and Freedom
Jan 17 The Face In The Mirror
2005
Dec 14 Let Down
Dec 13 Baby’s No Friend Of Mine
Nov 14 Early Frost
Oct 13 A Daughter Like Me
Sep 8 Waiting For Me
Sep 8 He’s Home
Aug 16 The Indecent Question
Aug 16 Mother-Sister
Jul 8 How to Make a Meat Pie and Other Tales of the Ambitious Mother
Jul 7 China Boy
Jun 10 Dad
Jun 7 Books and Dust
May 7 Motherkind
May 7 Letter to My Niece
May 7 Naked in California
Apr 13 Not So Perfect
Mar 13 The Golf Cart Incident
Mar 13 The God Question
Mar 13 Fragile Season
Feb 16 Why My Garden
Feb 16 Blueberries for Mom
Feb 16 Forecasts
Feb 16 Coming of Age at the Grand Canyon
Feb 16 Zen Broccoli
Feb 16 Dare Not Speak: On Not Being the Other Mother
Feb 16 Twelfth Day
Feb 16 Muse of Fire, Muse of Floss
Feb 16 Humber Takes Over the World
Feb 16 Hope Against Hope, Part One
Feb 16 Hope Against Hope, Part Two
Feb 16 Dump Trucks
Feb 16 Morphine and Mother’s Milk
Feb 16 The Plant
Feb 16 A Post Partum Disease Center
Feb 16 Written in the Body
Feb 16 Acts of Contrition
Feb 16 My Mother, My Child
Feb 16 All The Pretty Little Horses
Feb 16 Healing Arts
Feb 16 When You’re Ten
Feb 16 Dear Friend
Feb 16 Red Hurt
Feb 16 Things You Don’t Know
Feb 16 Analyzing Ben
Feb 16 Screaming Mornings: Living with Autism
Feb 16 Shaggy Hair, Sagging Pants, and Split Feelings
Feb 16 Bedtime Stories
Feb 16 Tenuous
Feb 16 Albion Street
Feb 16 Inchworm Turns Three
Feb 16 My Mommy’s Job
Feb 16 Johnny
Feb 16 Grey
Feb 16 The Gift
Feb 16 Raging Mom
Feb 16 Under the Chuppah
Feb 16 Just One?
Feb 16 Tested
Feb 16 My Non-Abortion Era
Feb 16 Having A Boy? Better Luck Next Time: Mothers, Sons and Stereotypes
Feb 16 How to be a Cybermom: Successful Real-Life Avoidance through Obsessive Internet Use
Feb 16 The Power Behind the Pink
Feb 16 Unsung Motherhood
Feb 16 Transparent Motherhood
Feb 16 A Good Enough Birth; A Good Enough Parent
Feb 16 Ask Me About My Abortion
Feb 16 Millennial Grandma
Feb 16 Where Have All the Grandmas Gone?
2004
Oct 28 The Child