Thanks, Birth Control?
Like, I suspect, many women (and I hope a few men), I have a complicated relationship with birth control. Specifically mine is complicated because I spent $500 out of pocket…
Discussion Questions for Night Sweats: An Unexpected Pregnancy
A group recently decided to read my book Night Sweats together and asked me to send along some questions for their discussion. It’s a bit awkward to write discussion questions…
Working on a Dream
Peanut butter sandwiches on raisin bread, and grapes. That’s what Hilda packed for me for lunch on August 28, 1993, after feeding me a breakfast of eggs and toast and…
What a Mess
This is a picture of my kitchen This used to be a picture of my kitchen, until it was lost in a camera phone update snafu, in more or less…
Why Self-Publish?
When people ask me who published my book, I say, proudly (or obnoxiously, depending on your take), “Me!” When they ask why, my answer is a bit less glib. “Good…
Night Sweats: My Book
As regular readers of this blog probably know, last year I had a baby. In the year when I was in the process of being pregnant with that baby, I…
Locks
For many years, I carried a keychain with a key to my grandmother’s house (which was never locked), a key to the house of some old family friends, and a…
Mythical Land
England’s not the mythical land of Madame George and roses It’s the home of police who kill blacks boys on mopeds And I love my boy and that’s why I’m…
Ordinary Linens: A Remembrance of Jody Wallace, 1923-2012
This is, more or less, the eulogy I delivered at my grandmother’s memorial service on Saturday, September 22 at Plymouth Place in La Grange Park, Illinois. A load of ordinary…
Single Motherhood and Ice Cream
We all know Republicans hate single mothers. (Dude, I’m not even going to provide you people a link for that. You’ve lived through at least a few decades in this…