A Throat-Clearing Night (for New York Times Motherlode)
(originally appeared in Lisa Belkin’s New York Times “Motherlode” column) I was 5, I was small, with hair as pale as milk, and I was about to become a graffiti artist. I was in Oklahoma, playing in our...
View ArticleMy Husband Had a Vasectomy and All I Got Was This Lousy T-Shirt
(This piece first appeared in the Huffington Post) My husband is the introverted type, so out of respect for his privacy, I’d like to talk to you about his vasectomy. We put it off longer than we...
View ArticleOh, Just Damn It All, I Have Photos Now (and the hurt is less and more)
http://parenting.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/06/15/memories-of-a-fathers-rage/ Dedicated with gratitude and deepest affection to my mentor and friend, the redoubtable Ms. Lisa Belkin I was five, I was...
View ArticleMy Husband Had a Vasectomy and All I Got Was This Lousy T-Shirt
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/corbyn-hightower/husband-vasectomy_b_1495617.html My husband is the introverted type, so out of respect for his privacy, I’d like to talk to you about his vasectomy. We...
View ArticleI Am Crumbly All Over
I’m forty-freaking-four years old as I write this in the spring of 2014. And NO, I’m not surprised by that. The years didn’t “fly by,” I don’t still “feel like a teenager,” I don’t “wonder how I got...
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