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- A Death in the Family
- A Fallen Woman
- A Home by Any Other Name
- A Little Bit Homeless
- A Murder-Suicide in the Family
- A Place for Everything, and – Oh, You Know
- A Place To Park My Rocking Chair
- A Room For All Seasons
- A Shot in the Dark
- A Story Problem in the Family
- A Very Very Very Fine House
- About Face(book)
- And All The Children Are Above Average
- And Now, a Few Words from the Cat in the Hat
- Anne Lamott’s One-Inch Frame
- Annie Dillard and the 20-foot conference table
- Another Thing My Assistant Can Do
- Another Thing My Assistant Can Do
- Another Thing My Assistant Can Do
- Anti-Resolutions
- Are You Political?
- Artful Dodger
- Autopsy
- Aw, Shucks
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- Dealing With Disappointment
- Dearest Editor
- Describe Your Headache
- Dishwashing As Spiritual Quest
- Do Something Good
- Do You Believe in Magic
- Does Anybody Really Know What Time It Is?
- Don’t Leave Home Without It
- Don’t Mess With My Chocolate
- Drinking from the Half-Empty Glass
- Dubuque, Where the Wild Things Are
- Dust to Dust
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N
O
P
S
- Safety Patrol Girl
- Save the Date!
- Six Degrees from Someone Famous
- Sizing Up Christmas
- Sleeping at 65 MPH
- Sleepwalker
- Smoke Gets in Your Eyes
- Soap Gets In Your Eyes
- Sorry, But I Can’t Critique Your Poem
- Soul State
- Strange Weather
- Strategic Cooking
- Streaming Poetry
- Sure… I Read That Book (Review)
- Sylvia & Me
- Sylvia Plath: Matter and Spirit
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- Taking Away the Keys
- Tall Enough
- Tarted-Up Tea
- Tea for – One
- Tell Me Where It Hurts
- Test Your Memory!
- The Best of Intentions
- The Best Roast Chicken
- The Boys of My Youth
- The Eternal Sunshine of the Fact-Free Mind
- The Fortunate 35 Percent
- The Good Enough Holiday
- The Great Outdoorsgirl
- The Importance of Aunts & Uncles
- The Joy of Cookbooks
- The Moody Blues
- The Noticing Gene
- The Other Kind of Lottery
- The Perks of Being Fired by My Doctor
- The Pleasures of Pie
- The Proust Questionnaire
- The Purse as a Necessary Evil
- The Search for Snowball
- The Skin of Our Teeth
- The Slip
- The Soul of the Machine
- The Truthiness Is Out There
- The Tulips are Doomed
- The Unbreakable Cord
- The Uncaged Bird
- The Valley of the Dolls
- The Visible Woman
- There Goes Another Stay-at-Home Mom
- There Goes the Neighborhood
- There’s a File for That
- Things my Assistant Can Do
- Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Headache
- This Elf Is Staying Put
- To Sleep, Perchance to . . . Sleep
- To Walk Or Not To Walk
- Too Much Tenderness, or, The Anguish of Moving
- Traveling on Our Stomachs
- Treasure
- Tree Hugging 101
- Try This On For Size
W
- Walk a Mile in My Shoe
- What A Pill
- What a Rush
- What I Gave My First Husband on our Honeymoon
- What to Expect When Your Kids Are Expecting
- What’s in a Name?
- Where Were You When?
- Who? What? When? Where? Why?
- Whose Birthday is It, Anyway?
- Why I Don’t Shop Here Anymore
- Will the Circle Be Unbroken?
- Winged Interloper
- Winter Windows
- World Enough and Time
After retiring from a column-writing gig lasting eleven years and yielding over 300 personal essays, I find I still have something to say. My thoughts range far and wide, and occasionally deep, on subjects including being an Iowan who misses Colorado; surviving marital violence; raising an amazing daughter and an equally amazing son; being justifiably angry about the world “these days;” writing poetry and plays; wondering if I’ll get Alzheimer’s like my mom and her two brothers; wanting to write about my twin granddaughters without sounding all Hallmark-y; fixing OCD-ish food; making sense of pants that come in shorts / crops / ankle-grazing / bootcut; being a librarian in public, academic, archival, and medical libraries; waiting 46 years to attend my high school reunion; having a gorgeous garden I can’t take care of; seeing a shaman; loving good men despite all the bad ones; and trying to wrest a little joy from life despite an 11-year-and-counting chronic migraine.