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ESSAYS

Essays inspired by reading


“Top Ten Bits & Pieces of Ice”

Top Ten List for Little Fiction’s 2018 Year in Review (Little Fiction, 12/21/18)


“Purple Ball Day”

An Essay on Family Traditions, Faith, and Doubt (The Manifest-Station, 6/16/17)


“Their Bodies, Their Selves”

Inspired by Eliza Factor (Bird’s Thumb, 4/18/17)


“It’s A Man’s World”

~ Nominated for Best of the Net (Nonfiction List) ~

An Essay on the Status of Women in the U.S. ((b)OINK, 1/02/17)


“Little Hubby on the Prairie: The Past’s Claim on Modern Manhood”

Inspired by Laura Ingalls Wilder (The Good Men Project, 1/31/16)


“The Wolf Inside”

Inspired by Michael Chabon (Literary Mama, 12/16/15)


“The True Story of My Grandmother’s Breasts”

Inspired by Roxane Gay (Prairie Schooner blog, 5/22/15)


“Meditations at Spring’s End: Snow Leopards, Pope Francis & Earl-Grey MarTEAnis”

Inspired by Peter Matthiessen & Essex Farm (GettingBalance.com, 6/16/14)


“Sex Tips from a Bookworm”

(ProjectEve.com, 6/10/13)


“Answering the Call of The Goldfinch”

Inspired by Donna Tartt & Cris Beam (GettingBalance.com, 1/30/14)


“It’s Not You, It’s Me: How to Dump a Book”

(ProjectEve.com, 8/6/13)


“Stuck in Parenthesis: The Cellist of Sarajevo“

Inspired by Steven Galloway (ProjectEve.com, 5/17/13)


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Latest Post

Grassy area of blithe wood on the Bard College Campus overlooking the Hudson River with a single adirondack chair in the distance and blue sky

Assembling Rabbit Hill

When my son was in the first grade, he asked if we could write a book together. Absolutely thrilled by the suggestion, as any writer-slash-mother would be, I immediately hopped to my feet, grabbed some pens, and tore a few pages from the massive box of connected dot matrix paper that we were still working […]

Featured Work

A bowl of applies on a dark wood surface. Photo credit: Annie Spratt

The Pink Lady, The Honeycrisp

I have a new story, “The Pink Lady, The Honeycrisp,” in Wigleaf today. Wigleaf is one of my very favorite literary magazines; it is a place I go when I need to read something that resonates deeply. I hope my piece resonates in some way with you. I’m grateful to Scott Garson for his smart […]

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