Essays

Recently Published:

Grieving My First Husband's Death and My Second Husband's Deployment in Insider Parenting
Flour, Needles, Soil, Pen: What Sustains Us (Taproot ISSUE 47::SUSTAIN)
I dream what would happen if my two husbands met in Motherwell

Forthcoming:

All:

Bangor Daily News, Contributor pieces
The Maine Woods
Rag Rugs and Old Friends
Patching the Holes
Camp Ray of Hope
Brain Injuries

Brain, Child Magazine
For Life, (Featured on the Huffington Post; 2014 Brain, Child Editors' Pick)
The Eddy
Where We Go
On Friendship
Feeling the Weight of an Impossible Situation
Alive and Breathing and Happy

Catapult
The Marsh

The Establishment
When Cancer Comes for Those You Love

Headspace
Stitch by Stitch
Next Winter's Wood

Hippocampus Magazine
A Geography of Grief
Ischemia

Hope Magazine
Overcoming Barriers

Insider Parenting
Grieving My First Husband's Death and My Second Husband's Deployment

Mamalode
Last One Standing
A Letter to My Daughter on the Cusp of Her Fifth Birthday

Modern Loss
Close to the Clouds

Motherfigure/the Mothership
What it means to be high-risk for preeclampsia

Motherwell
I dream what would happen if my two husbands met

Northern Woodlands Magazine
Issue 80, Place In Mind Column: read the essay

Role Reboot
Why I'm Not Moving Out of the House Where My Husband Died
The Gift
Moving With the Water
My Greatest Fear
On Finding Love Again as a Widowed Single Mom

Scary Mommy/The Mid
Telling the Truth (or How My Daughter Has Made Sense of Her Father's Death)
When the Firsts Just Keep Coming
Letting Go

Taproot
Roots, Blossoms, Fruit (Issue 43 :: ROOTS)
Flour, Needles, Soil, Pen: What Sustains Us (Issue 47::SUSTAIN)

The Washington Post
Wild Child
Life in Reverse
Dear Dead Husband

Write Despite
Guest Blog Post: Writing Through Grief