People
How a Cabin in the Woods Almost Killed Me
“You tell the real estate guy it’ll be your weekend place. You tell yourself you’re going to get a lot of writing done here.”
The Things We Never Say: A Family History
My mother traded her independence for the fullness of a family, tied it to a post for the confines of marriage.
We Need to Talk About Snails
“The day I confessed to being a witch I had no idea what I was doing.”
Of Spanish and My Grandmother
“Alzheimer’s had been pickpocketing her of a few memories each day until finally I was just a voice she couldn’t place.”
We Are All Scientists: On Mary Baker Eddy and Christian Science
Eddy’s lifetime of illness, and her encounters with medical therapies, poised her as an instrument of revelation.
Talking to My Daughter About Charlottesville
“Once your children know that even one person detests their bones and breath, they know.”
A Myth About Self-Harm
When I cut myself it wasn’t for attention. I cut to feel safe. And to stay sober.
“I need more time”: Weighing the Option of Egg Freezing
I’ll go through the egg-freezing procedure that will give me the chance of maybe, one day, having a child.
The Peaches: How to Punish the Fruit of Your Own Flesh
My grandmother wanted a perfect funeral for the man who’d beaten and abused her for all fifty years of their marriage.