Guilty Pleasures–Crab legs
National Geographic Traveler, 2008. This is about gluttony.
Seeing Elves
Brain,Child Magazine, 2006. This essay is about the conflict between reality and fantasy when raising young children.
Throwing the Thimble
Skirt Magazine, 2004. From the hidden way-back vault! This is about playing board games with little kids. I guess you could say it goes badly sometimes.
The Dogwood’s Last Day
Mockingbird Journal, Fall, 2003
Watch Your Back Barbie
Brain,Child Magazine, 2002. This was only the 2nd piece I ever sold and it still makes me smile because of how it captures a certain time in my kids’ lives.