Gender roles, rights, and norms have evolved, as evidenced by this week’s Supreme Court ruling on sex discrimination. I remember when The Marriage Act felt like being at the forefront …

Thrilled to be a contributor to the latest anthology in Akashic’s long-running Noir series, edited by Susie Bright, and featuring my talented friends & colleagues Elizabeth McKenzie, Micah Perks, Jill Wolfson, Peggy …

I just turned 38 which made me realize I had not published any new work in exactly one year, since I wrote an essay about women not being believed and …

may come from this book The 90 Day Novel by Alan Watt, which came recommended to me by a grad school friend while we were in NYC this summer. So, …

with occasional distractions from a short story I’m writing on the side. I found a new epigraph for the novel that I LOVE – and I can’t start before I …

moving to Santa Cruz, even though I first arrived in November of 2012. Only now are all the contents of my box shipment from Brooklyn finally put away, no more …

The last few days, I’ve been clearing out my old Brooklyn apartment to make more space for our friend who has been subletting it since I moved to Santa Cruz …

…for, respectively, the New York Times’ Modern Love Podcast, and new anthology O’s Little Book of Calm and Comfort! See the previous entry for Liza’s thoughts on good things happening …

I haven’t written much in the last ten weeks because I’ve been very busy teaching (not to mention being a mamma). Sometimes I wondered if and when I’d be able …

“So, your mother is running interference in your dating life. She claims to know who is or who is not a good match for you, that she can see clearly …