Essays

Parenting

• Rewatching Friends with My 10-Year-Old Daughter, Scary Mommy, September 20, 2024
• My Daughter Texted Me To Ask If I’d Had An Abortion, Romper, April 23, 2024
• The Smoke in the Air, Slate, December 23, 2022
• Good Moms Have Abortions – I’m One of Them, Romper, May 4, 2022
• Mothering Through Chronic Pain, Romper, April 28, 2022
• This is the Heartbreaking Reality of Being a Mom with Chronic Pain, HuffPost, January 7, 2021
• Parenting With Chronic Pain, Slate, January 2, 2015

Health

• My Sex Life on the Page, Slate, November 25, 2023
• Pink Ribbons and Days of Awe, Lilith, October 19, 2022
• The Day I Decided to Walk into a Psych Ward, Slate, March 11, 2022 (Slate’s most popular story of 2022)
• Returning to the Person That I Used to Be, Tablet, February 24, 2022
• It Took Getting Breast Cancer to Make Doctors Finally Take Me Seriously, HuffPost, September 9, 2021
• Mi Sheberach-Imagining a Post-Cancer Treatment Future, Lilith, June 29, 2021
• The Health of the Mother, Forward, May 19, 2017

Reproductive Rights

• The Dark History of the Right’s Graphic, Misleading Abortion Images, Talking Points Memo, October 8, 2015
• Why Do We Vilify Kim Davis, But Accept Doctors Who Refuse Women Abortion Care?, Talking Points Memo, September 25, 2015
• The Pope’s Abortion Comments Aren’t All That Progressive (Or Even New), Talking Points Memo, September 11, 2015
• Take it From Me: Abortion Isn’t More Gruesome Than Any Other Surgery, Talking Points Memo, April 28, 2015
• How Do You Solve a Problem Like Crisis Pregnancy Clinics?, Talking Points Memo, March 23, 2015
• 42 Years After Roe, My Home State of Alabama Chips Away at Abortion Rights, Talking Points Memo, January 22, 2015
• When Famous Women Talk About Their Abortions, It Helps All of Us, Talking Points Memo, January 12, 2015
• What It’s Really Like to be an Abortion Clinic Escort, Talking Points Memo, December 29, 2014
• What I Learned From the Anti-Choice Activists Outside My Holiday Party, Talking Points Memo, December 15, 2014

Judaism

• Yes, There Are Jews in Alabama. They Taught Me Everything I Know About Being Jewish, Kveller, October 3, 2023
• I Was Proud Of The Bold Sign In My Yard. Then A Stranger Took A Lighter To It, HufPost, August 17, 2023
• Travel Money, Lilith, January 25, 2022
• Children at My Daughter’s School Were Forced to Reenact the Holocaust, Forward, December 23, 2021
• Searching for an Uncle a Family Lost to Willowbrook, Forward, September 24, 2013