Commentary
Lorenzo was in The New York Times! I add exclamation because I can still rave about my son. I can still bellow with pride, as any mama would, so here I go. The New York Times Motherlode blog published my … Continue reading
Tag: writing
Writing By Heart
Ever feel like a snowball right after it’s rolled off the top of a mountain? As speed overtakes and layers fatten. As, having let go, no choice remains but to follow the energy all the way down. I sense a … Continue reading
Lorenzo Has Made Me a Literary Mama
I’m honored to share that Literary Mama has published a personal essay I wrote about facing Lorenzo’s due date in Perú last September. It’s called “What More, I Say, What More?” and you can read it here. (Please feel free to … Continue reading
Staying Open Forever
This New York Times Magazine piece, “George Saunders Has Written the Best Book You’ll Read This Year,” came out back in January, ahead of the release of Saunders’s new story collection, Tenth of December, but I’m just getting around to … Continue reading
This Is My Tribute
Writing this is all I do. Writing this is everything I do. I journey here and I journey to my parallel, private writings about my son, and those are my main avenues to any real sense of “arrival”—that feeling that you … Continue reading