Dec 23, 2020 4 min Southern Belles and Carpet Buzzers The fearless woman who helped demolish my garage cabinets was crouched on my staircase, painting the walls when I asked if her partner, a...
Nov 14, 2020 4 min In Celebration of the Common Riffraff Looming from her second-floor balcony, the owner confronted me, twitchy as a highlighted chicken. “You weren’t expecting to come inside, w...
Oct 18, 2020 2 min The Sausage on the Roof This essay was written while my daughter was still in Nepal: When my boyfriend Mickey first hurled the slice of cooked Italian sausage of...
Oct 4, 2020 6 min Black Mermaids Matter Months before the brutal police killing of George Floyd, before the protests when I made a sign saying, “I Can’t Breathe” and "Stop the K...
May 18, 2020 7 min Crossing by Myself Editor’s Note: I wrote this travelogue-style essay in November 2018, while visiting my daughter Caroline during her service with Peace Co...
Sep 20, 2018 1 min Why I Was Mean - From Eckerd Review My goal, in this nonfiction essay, was to provide a first-hand report on what Russ Douthat described in The New York Times as the 1970s c...
Sep 17, 2018 1 min Finding Mom's Gun - from Gravel Magazine “You need to find her gun and hide it,” my sister mumbled while our mother, propped in a hospital bed, prattled on about finding Bigfoot....
Sep 12, 2018 1 min Tagged - from Atticus Review Based on my partner’s encounter with U.S. Customs officials at Dulles airport, this essay is a romantic exploration of the discrimination...
Sep 3, 2018 1 min That Damned Skateboard At her neck’s nape, the red splotch still lurks, a sunny chick’s fuzz covers the scar of snarling angels, roaring, refusing her newborn r...
