A
- A Death in the Family
- A Fallen Woman
- 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
- Anti-Resolutions
B
C
D
H
I
L
M
P
S
T
- Tall Enough
- Tarted-Up Tea
- Tea for – One
- Tell Me Where It Hurts
- The Best Roast Chicken
- The Joy of Cookbooks
- 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 Soul of the Machine
- The Truthiness Is Out There
- The Unbreakable Cord
- The Uncaged Bird
- The Valley of the Dolls
- The Visible Woman
- There Goes the Neighborhood
- There’s a File for That
- Things my Assistant Can Do
- This Elf Is Staying Put
- To Walk Or Not To Walk
- Too Much Tenderness, or, The Anguish of Moving
- Traveling on Our Stomachs
- Try This On For Size
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.