The 17-Year Itch
Honored for my essay on gender equality and marriage to be featured on Longreads. Please find an excerpt below along with a link to the...
The Tiny Titans: Class of 2018
“Somehow you’ll escape all that waiting and staying. You’ll find the bright places where Boom Bands are playing.” – Dr. Seuss, Oh, the...
A Wisconsin Idea
In honor of Teacher Appreciation Week and in support of better funding for public education nation-wide, I wrote this piece for...
Jubilation Emote
My essay for Scarymommy.com last week: "I could plainly see that Fortnite fosters collaboration. Leo’s squad member slipped him Slurp...
Renaissance Women
I published an essay on The Washington Post online this week. The link can be found below: When a 'natural' mother considers plastic...
Red Flags
I published a short piece at Salon.com. It can be found below. Enjoy. Red Flags in Writing Class: Surviving their violent fantasies and...
Punchline
A lawyer and a writer walk into a bar. Sounds like the set-up for a joke, but it’s actually the way my criminal defense attorney husband...
On Wisconsin
The Chamber of Commerce probably keeps a blacklist with my name on it. It’s not that I don’t love Oshkosh, Wisconsin, but the city is to...
Thanks-A-Lot
I could never land a job in retail, marketing, or sales. I’d make a sorry huckster; a failed auctioneer. I couldn’t sell dogma to my own...
On Turning 40
Birthdays are a numbers game, and everybody plays according to their own algorithms. For example, my grandmothers Jean and Alta lived to...
