Appeared in The Millions, January 22, 2015. Reprinted by Three Quarks Daily on

Appeared in The Oregonian, March 9, 2013 on the first anniversary of Adrienne Rich’s

Appeared in Salon.com, December  8, 2013. Maybe ‘suffering’ is a grandiose word.

Appeared in The Sun: A Magazine of Ideas, August 2010. ‘Call your deadbeat dad.

This essay appeared in Common Boundary, July/August 1996. Reprinted in xy magazine