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Published: Twists & Turns

  • Posted on August 28, 2023
  • by Lauren

RedRoseThorns Magazine took an essay I paired with a collage for their issue about HOME/BELONGING. Many of my essays about grief, loss, and healing are tied up with my home, an old barn, in the…

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Published

Published: Along the Shore

  • Posted on July 11, 2023
  • by Lauren

Reading the Experts, Writing My Story, & Expressing Grief in My Studio was selected for Orange Blossom Publishing’s anthology Along the Shore: Strategies for Living with Grief. The anthology is slated for publication July 11,…

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Published

Published: Language Arts

  • Posted on May 18, 2023
  • by Lauren

This is my jam: teaching and reading and dealing with grief. The hole in my heart is ever-present. I have to work. I have to go on. I have to write about it.  This essay…

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Life Now

Published: The Gardan Journal

  • Posted on December 15, 2022February 12, 2023
  • by Lauren

Craigardan, a farm & arts community in the Adirondacks, published a hybrid piece I created using the flashcards my younger son made to study Spanish for their latest issue.  Language Lessons: The age-old symbolism of…

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Life Now

Published: Marriage in the Mountains

  • Posted on November 27, 2022
  • by Lauren

This piece started to take shape when it was my turn to drive. My husband pulled into a rest area so we could switch. When I was settled behind the wheel, he made some funny…

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Book Reviews

Published: Oh Reader

  • Posted on May 31, 2022June 18, 2022
  • by Lauren

Grief and growth take center stage in The Third Mushroom, a middle-grade novel by the talented Jennifer L. Holm that serves as a follow-up to The Fourteenth Goldfish, a book I shared with my first…

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Life Now

Published: Grief Isn’t Always Center Stage

  • Posted on April 6, 2022
  • by Lauren

Long ago I worked as the first communications director for Green Mountain Coffee Roasters. I love coffee and I loved living in Vermont’s capital, Montpelier, but I didn’t love the job. I spent hours writing…

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Life Now

Published: Ticket to Ride

  • Posted on March 8, 2022April 12, 2023
  • by Lauren

When Shutterfly landed in my inbox in December 2020, I felt assaulted by their cheery message to “push rewind” and relive memories from a family trip nearly a decade ago. So many of us are…

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Life Now

Published: Creating a Grief & Growth Notebook

  • Posted on February 21, 2022July 6, 2022
  • by Lauren

The process I learned to help clients who’d experienced sexual assault reframe their trauma became an important feature of my own healing 17 years later when I lost my teenaged son to suicide. I call…

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Life Now

Published: Omissions

  • Posted on January 28, 2022
  • by Lauren

I started writing Omissions after a real-life examination of my faculty bio on my school’s website midyear into a new teaching position. My sixth-grade students were to profile a faculty member of their choice, but…

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