Parenting
The Hero’s Journey
Originally published in Grown & Flown, May 6th, 2020 I was 11 weeks pregnant with my first child on 9/11. Each day, I drove from Brooklyn to a middle school in Westchester where I taught seventh grade English, sometimes stopping to puke into a baggie along the...
How to Pick a College During the Pandemic: A Guide for High School Seniors and their Parents
It’s 6:46 am. I’m supposed to be in Texas right now. With my seventeen-year-old son, Andrew. Visiting UT Austin, a college that he has been accepted into and that he kind of maybe sort of definitely wants to consider attending next fall. (Hook ‘em Horns!) In...See More In Humor
College Essay Writing
My favorite thing to do – and I’m being totally serious here – is to help high school seniors find the perfect topic for their college essays and then guide them through the process of writing it with honesty, voice, and style.