publications

Feeding My Daughter

Tiny Love Stories: “Everyone Should Have a Maxine”

Apps to Manage Meals for Different Dietary Needs

Hate Cooking Dinner? How This Mom Changed It Up

Potatoes and Carrots, or How I Found My Soul in Nineteen Prayers

How I Learned to Live Through Limbo

Drawers of Ghost Clothing

All I Knew Was That She Was a Human in Pain

It Is Always Monday

Lessons from the Floor

How My Daughter’s Diagnosis Forced Me to Transform the Way I Cooked for Good

Overwhelmed by Your Child’s Restricted Diet? 8 Foods That Saved This Frustrated Mom

These Are the Things I Will Never Know 

On Raising Straight White Privileged Kids

American Heart Month Leaves Out Caregivers

In Not for Ourselves Alone: Gender Politics and Parenting in the 21st Century, I Was Still a Little Girl, I Was a Little Girl in a Bra

In Portrait of an Adoption, The Dabometer: A Barometer for Bullying: A Barometer for Bullying.

Abortion’s Old Craft Can Still Be Cultivated

The Awful Night At The Hospital That Led To My Baby’s ‘Failure To Thrive’ Diagnosis

As the Only Jewish Kid in the Class, Latkes Made My Holiday the Star

It took 9 months for my baby to be diagnosed with a congenital heart defect. I regret not asking her doctors more questions.

Seeing a child receive the diagnosis ‘failure to thrive’ can be painful for parents. A new diagnosis, called pediatric feeding disorder, could help.

I am the Julieta Madrigal of my house. After my daughter struggled to gain weight, I focused all my energy on cooking for her.

Unless You’re My Kids, Please Don’t Call Me Mom

The Orthodox Woman I Met in the Children’s Hospital

The Yom Kippur When My Daughter’s Life Was on the Line

This is the Surgery That Saved My Daughter’s Life

The Seder I’ll Never Forget

Why My Grandmother’s Kugel Became a Family Staple Long After Her Death

There Is a Recipe for Challah but Not for Raising Children

My Mother’s Mandelbrot Keeps My Family Connected Throughout the Jewish Holidays and Beyond

You Are Here

If You Know A Kid About To Go To College In A State With Abortion Restrictions, Read This

My Daughter Was Misdiagnosed, And I Could Have Sued. Here’s What I Did Instead.

This Is What I Learned When Forced to Put My Daughter on a Totally Fat-Free Diet

My Family Had to Do Social Distancing for Five Weeks in 2014. Here’s What We Learned.

What to Do

Utopia Lost and Value Reframed


It’s Not Okay That You Didn’t Invite My Baby tobrain-child-wedding-11-3-15 Your Wedding

The Closet

Motherhood Friends

Let the Waves Break

The Sandwich That Changed Everything

How Do We Respond To This Instability? We Become Ourselves, But More So.

A Walk to School

The Boy in the Next Bed

Sixteen

I’m Afraid of COVID-19. It’s Already Killing People Like Me.

5 Ways Parents Can Help Their Children’s Doctors Work Together

Out of the Dark Room: Healing from Concussion