Published in The Orange Journal·Mar 10A Picture Worth 100 WordsFirst date jitters at a gallery — Short Form1 min readPhoto by Dani Marroquin on UnsplashA Picture Worth 100 WordsFirst date jitters at a gallery----1
Published in The Memoirist·Jan 31Game Over. Play Again?Fresh Start Past a Best By Date — Starting over is never quite the fresh, dewy, clean sweep I imagine. My square-ones are not the just-after-a-hot-shower or New Year, New Me type. They often look more like a ’99 Kia Rio with rusted out wheel wells that gets a new piece of duct tape to hold a headlight…Memoir4 min read
Published in Modern Women·Jan 27Mom, a Mama, MomA Palindrome Piece — I accidentally signed up for a scam vanity publishing contest, tasked with writing a 100-word poem in palindrome. (It would read the same backward and forward, line by line.) While I discovered the mistake too late to save my submission fee (and embarrassment), I did not actually submit the piece…Women1 min read
Published in Modern Women·Jan 5What I Want Most This Year: To Figure Out What I Want MostNew Year, Same Ennui — Years ago, my husband and I unwittingly started an annual tradition of walking the perimeter of a local lake on New Year’s Day. …Self3 min read
Dec 21, 2021A Very Short Story of an Enchanting Conversation With My Toddler“Before you go, can I have some Mac and Cheese?” — It’s 7:21 am, and we’re in the car. I’m driving, (obviously), and both kids are in the back seat. I’ve packed 2 lunches for school and daycare, each entirely different because by the grace of the universe, they have absolutely zero shared food likes. Each kid is dressed in their…1 min read
Published in Evolve·Oct 22, 2021Falling Short: Squashed Dreams of the Perfect Autumn Experience100 and Under Fall Competition — At the start of every October, the fantasizing begins. Dark filtered images of me sitting on a giant guess-the-weight pumpkin, clad in a felt hat and wire-rimmed sunnies, a beautiful oversize taupe sweater, the front tucked into ironically perfect stonewashed jeans, and boots. Oh, the boots! My children, clean and…100 And Under4 min read
Published in New Writers Welcome·Oct 5, 2021Poison Ivy and Anxious AttachmentGifts from a mother who couldn’t love — We were terrified of my mother. She was violent and chaotic, mean and raunchy, wild and unhinged. At home. Out in the world, she was warm, friendly, charming and charismatic. And, for a time, pretty. She had soft, full lips and steely blue eyes. She wore gold hoop earrings the…Motherdaughter4 min read
Published in Human Parts·Jul 15, 2021Are You Going to Screw Us Over at Christmas, Too?It was the last time I got together with my dad. 7 weeks later he was dead. — In November 2020, we were tired. And sad. And scared. And all of the multilayered emotions that go with fatigue, despair and terror. …Covid 197 min read
