Essays

The drive to Colorado took two days. It was April 15, 1987, and I had just come from Fort Rucker, Alabama, the Army’s Aviation...

Can I tell you why there aren’t more women flying the friendly skies? It’s because all the women who want to be airline pilots...

As a teen who had an unhealthy obsession with Mermaids, particularly the part where every time Winona Ryder kissed a boy, she thought she...

I just wanted to be in my car, with the windows up, listening to anything—a podcast, a book on tape, a wailing cat in heat—anything other than the sound of these voices in this clearing.

A viable offer has been made on my childhood home. I’m not falling out of my chair with shock, considering it’s been on the...

It all started with a health and diet segment on The Today Show, a show I rarely watch, but maybe because I was missing...

I ended up going through a divorce, leaving a job of ten years, starting my own business, and just generally upending my life. And now I’m sharing my recipes for a yummy, healthy, feel good menu that you can easily adapt into any food plan.

Before my son graduated from high school in June 2019, everyone warned me that, when he left for college in August, it...

I am still raw from the March 13th sting when we, terrified by a novel virus, canceled classes at the high school where I teach -- where my youngest attends -- and floored it home without a backward glance, locked ourselves up tightly, and refused to open for friend and stranger both. I forced smiles for all the kids in my care, "What an adventure!" it said. We got this. I got this.