Many of my essays about grief, loss, and healing are tied up with my home, an old barn, in the mountains of upstate New York. Gotham Writers Workshop paired this piece with artwork by Nora…
Awfully Hilarious: Period Pieces
This project has launched! The e-book is available and you can order the paperback copy: Awfully Hilarious Project page My mom is the star in the essay featured in this anthology. She guides me…
(Re)published: Keep Going
In case you missed this one the first time, you can catch it in SugarSugarSalt Magazine. The real market: Cedar Run in Keene, New York. Visit! And, of course, North Country School makes an appearance.…
MUTHA Magazine
Well, I feel accomplished. I’ve admired MUTHA Magazine for a while. I sent them a hybrid piece, combining some sketches with my story of loss. It’s still a bit shocking to be part of a…
Language Arts
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…
Marriage in the Mountains
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…
Oh Reader
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…
Omissions
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…
What a Children’s Book Taught Me (and My Students) About Grief
Michelle Cuevas’s powerful children’s book, The Care and Feeding of a Pet Black Hole, features prominently in my essay about navigating grief while preparing for my new role as an English teacher at North Country…
What’s Your Grief – Books & Broken Hearts
The website What’s Your Grief published a piece I wrote this summer. It highlights three contemporary middle-grade books that are ideal for facilitating meaningful conversations and classroom activities about trauma, grief, and loss with students.…