Together Apart
was driving a winding Ohio country road while my husband was at his mother’s funeral in Mexico. I was driving by myself, listening to…
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Women We Read This Week
Soniah Kamal’s “The Reluctant Writer” in Catapult At 14, Sonia Kamal, like many girls her age, was inspired by a woman on television and…
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Writing Like a Mother(f*cker)
In the first few months after the baby is born, I experience a singing clarity: Milk! Diapers! Milk! Diapers! Lusty oxytocin! Sleep! Cheez-it binge! Sleep! I have cleared out a space–no, cleared out my whole brain–for this time, and I have no expectation of writing.
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Women We Read This Week
Elizabeth Alexander’s “Lottery Tickets” in The New Yorker This is a love story. A tale of loss, but a love story before that, and…
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A Hidden Writing Life
For the first time in my life, I have a room of my own in which to write. I also have the precious commodities of solitude and time.
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Travels with Carly
“I’m pregnant,” Carly said. It was only 7 a.m. in Australia and her voice was still raspy. In my Skype box, she looked tired but happy…
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There Are No Goodbyes in the Army
The day’s heat had worn off by the time my husband was heading back to the barracks, and my bare legs were covered in goose bumps.
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