Essays

"50 Million Americans Are Unpaid Caregivers. We Need Help," The New York Times

"Don't Tell a Caregiver to Stay Positive. Here's How to Help Instead," TIME

"Out of the Attic: A Caregiver's Rage and Jane Eyre," Literary Hub (adapted book excerpt)

"Rereading The Phantom Tollbooth in Our Year of Pandemic Doldrums," Literary Hub

"Learning on the Job: The Family Caregiver Reality," Generations

"Opinion: Caregiving Is a Vital Part of the Nation's Infrastructure Like Bridges and Roads," MarketWatch

"Collateral Damage: When It Comes to Caregiving, Women Are Already Toast," Bitch Magazine (adapted book excerpt)

"Mobilize Family Caregivers to Speed the Rollout of COVID-19 Vaccines," STAT

"Take You Me For a Sponge?: How My Marriage Survived Illness and Caregiving," Catapult

Only a Motion Away, Or, Why I Flew Cross-Country to Paul Simon's Last Show in Memory of My Mom, Memoir Mixtapes

"Armed With Knowledge: Gun Violence Researcher Dr. Garen Wintemute," Sactown Magazine

"Why I Turned to Candy-Making As My Family Fell Apart," Catapult

"The Peckish Patient: Why Is Hospital Food So Disgusting?" Eater.com (longform)

"It's Still Radical For a Woman To Be Alone," Dame Magazine

"The Goddess Problem," Avidly

"Your Extra Stuff Is a Feminist Issue," Dame Magazine

"Life, Untidied: Why I Regret Decluttering," Ravishly

"The Quiet Violence at the Heart of Motherhood," Ravishly

"The Yoke of Duty: Of Caregiving and Middlemarch," Empty Mirror

"Waiting for the Coroner," Hippocampus

"Leslie's House of Nightmares," Avidly

"What Cancer Can Cost (Even With Insurance)," The Billfold

"The Winding," Baltimore Review

"How to Do the Holidays Like a Man," GrokNation

"Fire Danger: Very High," JuxtaProse

"Grandma's Secret," Brain, Child

"Marrow," Bellingham Review (finalist for the Annie Dillard Creative Nonfiction Award; Pushcart Prize nominee)

"An Inheritance," The Pinch