Suprise Me

What a bizarre intersection of a vacation from hell with a pandemic-stricken ship. Read More

In 1961, Elvis sang "Little sister, don't you do what your big sister done." But I was always trying to do what my big sisters did. Read More

This piece originally appeared in 2018 for the Student Activism prompt. Now in 2020, once again young activists are taking a leading role in the Black Lives Matter movement, taking it to the streets and the seats of government as a beleaguered nation is forced to face its history of systemic racism while a devastating… Read More

Any woman reading this will identify the "yeah, sure lady" response to our describing a problem with our cars. The same can apply to our bodies. Read More

When each of my first two kids was born, I stayed home for a year, and when I went back to the AG’s Office (part-time) they went to a daycare center. That seemed to work pretty well. But with the youngest, we thought it made sense to have someone come to our house, because she… Read More

Excerpted from Rocked in Time, a work in progress. Read More

“It may not come when you want it / But it gets you there right on time.” Read More

The process of preparing our house to go on the market felt like peeling an onion – layer by layer, my life there disappeared. Read More

I was incredibly nervous, never having taught anything, let alone ESL, before. Read More

I didn’t learn who McCarthy was until much later. And I know now why news is so important. Read More