by Writer1 | May 29, 2018 | Column, Slightly off topic…
There’s nothing more annoying than a person on a cleanse. Or even just a person who wants to talk about their diet: what they’re eating, what they’re not eating, what they have eaten but are not likely to eat again. A recent conversation with a man who was in the... 
by Writer1 | Nov 21, 2017 | Column, Slightly off topic…
It’s important to remember the genesis of Thanksgiving, lest we all just start to see it as a stomach-stretching warm up for the actual holidays. The first Thanksgiving was a shared meal between the pilgrims and the Native Americans, one where they gave thanks for all... 
by Writer1 | May 1, 2015 | Column, On being a mom
As published in The Week on May 4, 2015 When people introduce me in either social or professional situations, there are two facts that they usually mention: that I am a writer, and that I am the mother of three boys. Hearing these facts about my life never gets old,... 
by Writer1 | Feb 6, 2015 | Column, On being a mom
As Published in The Rye Record on February 6, 2015 problem solver Much is made of death and taxes. Their unavoidability, the fact that they are always hanging, ominously, just over our shoulders. But death comes about only once in a lifetime, and tax season’s just... 
by Writer1 | Nov 21, 2013 | Column, Slightly off topic…
As published in The Week on November 21, 2013 Because I lost control of the clicker about a decade ago, I spend November watching a lot of football and a lot of the Food Network. My husband flips back and forth between the NFL and home-style cornbread stuffing,...