
Selected Publications
2022
Atticus Review: Piranha Tank, Spring
Poets&Writers: The Perfectly Balanced Writers Group, Mar/Apr
WIRED: I Gave My Child A Smartphone and It's Been the Best Thing For Her, Feb
2021
NBC THINK: Adoption Doesn't Mean Abortion Isn't Needed, Even if Some Supreme Court Justices Think So, Dec
Severance Magazine: I Didn't Understand My Hair. Then I Met My Birth Parents, Dec
The Independent: My Birth Certificate Was Legally Changed. At 48, I Saw The Real Version For the First Time, Nov
The New York Times:Tiny Love Stories: Of Wings and Wind, (2nd down), Nov
Brevity Blog: Getting to the Truer Version of the Story, Nov
In These Times: School's Open. But What About the Year That I, And Other Disabled Students, Lost? (with Freyja Christian), Sept
Hippocampus Magazine: TFW A Keynote Speaker, A HippoCamp 2021 Recap, Sept
Hippocampus Magazine:Surviving the Slush Pile Or, Two Ways To Look At Life, A HippoCamp 2021 Recap, Sept
Brevity Blog: Writing Groups: How? Why? Sept
Entropy: The Story My Body Already Knew, Aug
Cognoscenti: COVID Helped Me Show My Parents I Love Them, Aug
Cognoscenti: Swimmer Becca Meyers' Ordeal Shows Even The Paralympics Doesn't Listen To Disabled People, Aug
Brevity Blog:How Writers Learn and Grow, June
Cognoscenti:My Disabled Daughter Showed Me That None of Us Are Independent, April
Cognoscenti:What Norton Juster's 'The Phantom Tollbooth' Taught Me About This Life, March
Brevity Blog:Writing A Memoir Can Be Dangerous Work. Protect Yourself! Feb
Hippocampus Magazine:I Found My Writing Self On Zoom, Jan
2020
Why I Stopped Calling Myself A Special Needs Parent, Uncomfortable Revolution, December 2020
How to Make Your Child's Hospital Stay Easier, From a Parent Who's Been There, PopSugar Family, December 2020
Wait For It To Be Over, Pidgeonholes, November 2020
Dear Joe Biden, I'm A Disabled Kid & There Are Some Things You Should Know, (with Freyja Christian and Thora Christian), Romper, November 2020
My Disabled Daughter Isn't Your Inspiration Porn The Washington Post, January 2020
No, I'm Not An Amazing Mom Just Because My Child Has Special Needs The Washington Post, January 2020
2019 and earlier
Instead of 'Mothering' And 'Fathering,' Let's Start To See All Of The Work As 'Parenting' The Washington Post, 7/19
My Pediatrician's Oversight Taught Me to Trust My Instincts as a Mom, PopSugar Family, 7/19
What Self-Care Looks Like For The Sandwich Generation (And It's Not What You Think) The Washington Post, 5/19
What My Daughter's Make-A-Wish Trip Taught Me About Parenting, And Myself The Washington Post, 4/19
A Special Needs Parent Against My Will, Learning My Own Adaptive Lesson
The New York Times, 5/15
Dear Aimee Column
Elevating Disabled Voices
advice essays for nondisabled parents of newly-diagnosed disabled or chronically ill children