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from "pick-me" to misandrist to grown-up
or how I learned to make friends with good men in middle-age.
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when the body says no, how do we respond?
especially when other parts of our body are saying yes
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March 2024

Baby Had a Fast Car
on teenage freedom and the broken promises of adolescent hope
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"War and Noise"
for many writers, the problem isn't that we can't find "peace and quiet," it's that we think that is what we must have in order to write. (we don't.)
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this is a love letter to all the mothers in the Children's Hospital ER at 11:11 pm on a Tuesday night
and also everywhere else
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Bloom Cycles
on beauty, time, rebellion and home
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February 2024

Get Free: on Staying, Leaving and What Comes Next
announcing two new virtual writing workshop-communities for women who are considering divorce and recovering their autonomy in the aftermath
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when it comes to sex, women are not a monolith
untangling female desire from monogamous heteronormativity
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secret and not-so-secret smokers
I see you, mom in the stop and drop line, not giving a fuck and I salute you with a lighter extended out the sunroof. FREEBIRD!
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on looking and finding and feeling
sometimes new beginnings feel as heavy with grief as they do with joy
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January 2024

the loneliness of the long distance driver
(or how traffic is a poet)
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to Stay or Leave
scenes from a done marriage and the aftermath #howIleft
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