Published Pieces
Oedipus Wrecked, The Educators Room, February 2025
So Many Stories in a Day, Brevity Blog, July 2024
The Vanished, Dreamers, Summer 2024
A Marvel of Chaos, Multiplicity, Summer 2024
String of Pearls, Midstory Magazine, April 2024
Teacher First, Well Schooled, April 2024
Jane's Candy Dish, The Keepthings, August 2023
Final Dress Rehearsal: On Finishing my MFA Thesis, Brevity Blog, June 2023
This Time for My Son, Grown & Flown, October 2022
Visiting William, Dorothy Parker’s Ashes, September 2022
The Headmistress as Writer, Brevity Blog, July 2022
26 Shards of Loss, Multiplicity, June 2022
Fighting the Impulse to Stay Numb, Education Week, May 2022
About the Hankie, Yankee Magazine, January 2022
Home is Where the Heart Is, Halfway Down the Stairs, December 2021
Spun Glass, Bending Genres, August 2021
Secateurs, Brevity Blog, August 2021
When I Think of Thee, Dear Friend, Tiny Love Story (scroll down the the last one in this series, New York Times, August 2021
Well Schooled: The Site for Educator Story Telling, Founding Editor and Contributing Author, ongoing
Writing About Writing, August 2020
Mad Libs and Pandemics: A Schoolteacher’s Musings, Brevity Blog, April 2020
What Is School Without the Students?, Grown and Flown, March 2020
Before Great Pain, a Formal Feeling Comes, Mothers Always Write, January 2020
Try to Breathe and Savor the Next Few Months, Head of School Tells Her Seniors, Grown and Flown, January 2020
Circles of Life, Community Works Institute Journal, September 2019
by subscription: Returning to Chekhov, Under the Gum Tree, Summer 2019
On Embracing the Unexpected, After Page One - Literary Mama, 8/28/17
Writing Life: How Not to Get an MFA, Hippocampus
Not Pompeii, Feminine Collective, 5/22/17
Luckier Than I Deserve, The Manifest-Station, 7/28/16
About Girls...
Gloria, Arianna, Kakenya and Me, Huffington Post Education, 2/17/16
Voice and Vision: How Girls Learn to Lead and Resist Leading, NCGS Raising Girls' Voices, 10/01/15
Girl Power!, Huffington Post Education, 7/18/14
28 Things I Want Girls to Know..., Huffington Post Education, 6/07/14
Strength vs. Stressors: Building Resilience to Help Girls Manage Stress, NAIS Independent School Magazine, Summer 2013
Reunions: Remembrances of Girlhoods Past, NAIS Independent School Magazine, Winter 2013
About School Leadership…
Interview Etiquette, NAIS Independent Ideas Blog, 2018
Cultivating Resilience, NAIS Independent Ideas Blog, 2018
For the New Year, Nine Mantras and Mottoes, NAIS Independent Ideas, 1/04/16
Nurturing Resilience: Reminding Ourselves What Kids Need, NAIS Independent Ideas, 3/17/15
Some Rules of Thumb for School Leaders from My Experience as Head of School, NAIS Independent Ideas, 8/17/15
Better Together: Parenting a Child in an Independent School, Huffington Post Education, 12/11/14
Strength vs. Stressors: Building Resilience to Help Girls Manage Stress, NAIS Independent School Magazine, Summer 2013
About Teaching…
The Lead Writer: Modeling the Habits of Writing for Students, NAIS Independent Teacher, Spring 2018
W-A-T-E-R: Annie and Helen in the Theatre, Huffington Post, 6/30/16
Love the Words, NAIS Independent School Magazine, March 2016
Senior Night, Huffington Post Education, 2/05/16
Mom's Math Anxiety, NAIS Independent School Magazine, 1/26/16
For the New Year, Nine Mantras and Mottoes, NAIS Independent Ideas, 1/04/16
Voice and Vision: How Girls Learn to Lead and Resist Leading, NCGS Raising Girls' Voices, 10/01/15
A Booster Shot on Parents' Night, NAIS Independent Ideas, 9/08/15
Collateral Sorrow, Huffington Post Impact, 5/20/15
Stand on the Table!, Huffington Post Education, 8/20/14
This Land is Our Land, Huffington Post, July 2014
About Motherhood…
Time Weaves a Mother’s Tapestry from Two Windows in Manhattan, Her View from Home
Growing Paperwhites, Grown and Flown, December 2018
Caretaker, Coffee and Crumbs, 5/28/18
Take Me Out to the Ballgame: Game Six of the World Series, Huffington Post, 11/06/16
Hold The Memory Close; Let It Go Again, Mamalode, 10/04/16
The Care and Feeding of a Carnival Goldfish, Literary Mama, March 2016
Soapsuds, Mamalode, 3/06/16
Dog Whisperer, Huffington Post Parents, 12/22/15
Lighting the Darkness, Cleveland Jewish News, 12/03/15
Violins of Hope, Huffington Post Arts and Culture, 10/01/15
On the Mend: Grappling With Resilience, Huffington Post Education, 7/30/15
April Cruelty, Huffington Post Women, 4/13/15
Morning Meditation, Huffington Post Healthy Living, 3/04/15
Double Sixes: What Backgammon and My Daughter Taught Me About How to Lighten Up, Huffington Post Parents, 2/03/15
Keep On Chewing, Huffington Post Women, 11/25/14
Taking Comfort, Huffington Post Parents, 9/02/14
In the Time That a Blueberry Ripens, Huffington Post Parents, 8/01/14
This Land Is Our Land, Huffington Post Post 50, 7/03/14
Post Mother's Day Blues, Huffington Post Parents, 5/13/14
The Better Late Than Never Seder, Huffington Post Religion, 4/21/14
Hummingbirds on Holiday, Huffington Post Parents, 4/11/14
My Daughter, Jo March, Huffington Post Parents, 3/14/14
Growing Up With Curly Top, Huffington Post Women, 2/18/14
What's in a Name?, Huffington Post, 2/04/14
About Writing…
Writing the Quiet Memoir, Brevity Blog, 7/20/18
Writing Despite the Obstacles, Brevity Blog, 7/19/17
After Page One: Delight, Literary Mama, 9/20/16
Kindred Spirits: In Praise of Online Classes, Brevity, 7/26/16
After Page One: Why I Write, Literary Mama, 7/01/16
Morning Meditation, Huffington Post Healthy Living, 3/04/15
Finding the Words: A Visit with Naomi Shihab Nye, Community Works Journal, 2014
About Theatre…
W-A-T-E-R: Annie and Helen in the Theatre, Huffington Post, 06/30/16
A Working Mother's Take on 'Hamilton', Huffington Post Parents, 5/13/16
Chapters in Anthologies…
Fury: Women's Lived Experiences During the Trump Era, ed., Roost and Hirshfeld-Flores “The Cat and the Cardiologist”, Spring 2020
What I Didn’t Know by Creative Nonfiction (20 true stories about what it takes to be a teacher), “Nothing Gold Can Stay”, Fall 2016
Psychoanalytic Reflections on Parenting Teens and Young Adults: Changing Patterns in Modern Love, Loss, and Longing, Edited by Anne J. Adelman, “No Going Back to Before”, 2018