I bravely entered the blogosphere on April 12, 2011. Since that time, I’ve amassed a large collection of writings.  This page highlights the best, as judged by publishers, editors, readers and myself.

Published

• Journey Out of the Dark, a story of postpartum depression (published in the May/June issue of Natural Child Magazine)
• Finding Out, coming to terms with having a girl (published on The Momoir Project)
• The End of the Day, facing the boredom of life with a baby (published on The Momoir Project)
• Blogging for the Huffington Post:
• Life Advice for My 20-Year-Old Self
• Let the Children Fight
• “You’re Making Mommy Sad” is a Dirty, Dirty Lie

Featured

• Job Interview or Therapy? (Selected as a BlogHer’12 Voices of the Year Honoree)
• I don’t “Like” this anymore (Featured on Freshly Pressed on WordPress.com)
• “You Blogged About What?!”; or, How do you draw the line? (Featured on Freshly Pressed on WordPress.com)
• A dog’s bucket list; or, dogs shouldn’t die (Featured on BlogHer.com)
• Featured Blogger on Vie Hebdomadaires
• Attached Free-Range Kids? Or, How TIME Missed the Issue Completely (Editor’s Choice on Yeah Write)

Readers’ Favorites

• Your baby is an asshole
• Top 5: Things to do before you have kids
• Natural Consequences: Letting toddlers learn from their mistakes
• Writing: Telling the truth in the dark
• Sexist Toys: On Becoming a Feminist
• Mother Anger: In the Beginning

My Favorites

• Postcards from Motherhood: You CAN Climb This Mountain
• Summer Rain
• The moment she was born
• The Last Time
• Monday you can fall apart
• Things my daughter has taught me about human nature
• I may be a mom but that doesn’t mean I have to look like one
• In a dark and lonely room
• Celebrating the renewal of life
• Is this me? Self portraits.
• Going Home
• Midnight Mothering
• The first day of daycare
• Let’s do what everyone else is doing
• Book Review: Can Time Lost be Found?
• Creative Writing Prompts: Tell a story from the point of view of the kitchen floor
• Book Review: The Age of Innocence