Mar 18, 2021
What Adopting a Dog Taught Me About My Eating Disorder
During those first weeks, I was in a never-ending, often failing battle with Penny, then an eight-pound roly-poly of a beagle
How Affirmations Ground Me in Baking and Parenting
My affirmations teach me the things I still need to learn.
Feb 09, 2021
I Will Always Be Able to Find My Father in the West
Out on the road and in the great outdoors my dad and I discovered we were more like each other than we believed.
Feb 05, 2021
I Needed Control of My Life, So I Started With My Hair
I grieved the chance to have an uncomplicated pregnancy. I grieved the fact that having more babies could be potentially fatal. And I grieved a younger, more carefree me.
Feb 03, 2021
In the Shadow of Saris: Exploring Identity Through Memory and Dislocation
Only after I left a home where there were many women who might have helped me did I realize the sari represented more than a cultural announcement.
Jan 26, 2021
The Three Corpses
From the beginning, I knew that terror is a god. But now, I also believe that what might sound like a death rattle is merely the echo of ancestral song.
Jan 13, 2021
Resistance Can Be Playful, Too
In the face of overlapping and unprecedented crises, an immigrant mom protects her family through play.
Dec 17, 2020
Learning to Love My Mother’s Body and My Own
Envy feels a lot like binging—the more you give into it, the worse you feel.
Dec 16, 2020
Jewish Comedy as a Love Language
It’s hard to say what about it is more charming to me, the hilarity of it or the inescapable Jewishness of it. Mel Brooks could be any man in my family.
Dec 15, 2020
How Do You Survive a Child Meant to Survive You?
My mind is years ahead, trying to imagine an America whose cherished ideals hold true even for a little Black boy like mine.
Dec 10, 2020
The Ghost on the Zoom Call
Including my mother, we inhabit seven squares. At the beginning of each Zoom session, my mother asks who we are.
Dec 07, 2020
A Pregnancy, a Pandemic, and a Pear Tart
When I first discovered I was pregnant, we were deep into a very strange spring.
Dec 01, 2020
The Thrill and Grief of Being a Singlehanded Sailor
I still wonder, what is the right amount of time to grieve?
Nov 24, 2020
Motherhood, Metamorphosis
I do not wish to have not been a parent. But I think it is normal to imagine new existences when the world is crumbling.
Nov 10, 2020
Still Life With Thelma and Louise, My ‘Ex-Batt’ Chickens
For my rescued hens, every day was the best day they’d ever had.
Nov 03, 2020
Little Girl, Big Dinosaur Costume
Fashion is about more than looking good, or feeling comfortable—it’s about how your clothes tell your story.
Oct 29, 2020
Three Generations of Elizabeths, Breast Cancer, and Self-Preservation
When your maternal grandmother dies from breast cancer, there’s this strange intersection between her health and your mother’s health and yours.
Oct 05, 2020
He’s Starting School at Home, But I’m Just Happy He’s Here
Nothing in my son’s life has gone according to plan. Why would school be any different?
Sep 16, 2020
Why I Stopped Celebrating My “Birthday”
I don’t know when I was born. I’ve stopped pretending that I do.
Sep 09, 2020
