New York, I Love You—But Are You Bringing Me Down?
What parts of me are still fed by my New York environment? Are other parts of me getting hungrier? For more, or for something else entirely?
How My Maker’s Manhattan Made Me
I felt I had something to prove. But the Manhattan, unchanged since its nineteenth-century origins, has nothing to prove.
Two Freelance Artists and a Baby
“A baby has two superpowers: the ability to suck productive time out of a day and the ability to bleed a wallet dry.”
A Room of One’s Own: Sharing (Brain) Space with My Baby
“My former home office, with its glorious door separating it from our bedroom, is now our son’s domain.”
Postpartum Tea: Taking Care While Changing Identity
“It is a bewildering and lonely thing to be so attached to another human and also feel so adrift and so alone.”
The Productive Artist-Mother
How becoming a parent helped me set more reasonable creative goals.
Becoming an Artist and a Parent in NYC
“In many ways, I’m back where I started—except now I’m almost twenty years older, and I have a kid.”
Annie Dillard, Azzy, and Me: On Motherhood and Loss
“I was left dazed and sad and missing my cat while tending to a newborn.”
How to Be a (Sober) Pregnant Woman in America
“Having been alive as a woman for several decades in the United States, I was not shocked by the control being exerted on women’s bodies.”
15 Minutes with Gabriel
Kayaking, Bill Murray, and Christmas trees in New York.