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 Multiplicty, 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
Not Pompeii - Feminine Collective - 5/22/17
Luckier Than I Deserve - The Manifest-Station - 07/28/2016
About Girls...
Gloria, Arianna, Kakenya and Me - Huffington Post Education - 02/17/2016
Voice and Vision: How Girls Learn to Lead and Resist Leading - NCGS Raising Girls' Voices - 10/01/2015
Girl Power! - Huffington Post Education - 07/18/2014
28 Things I Want Girls to Know... - Huffington Post Education - 06/07/2014
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 - 01/04/2016
Nurturing Resilience: Reminding Ourselves What Kids Need - NAIS Independent Ideas - 03/17/2015
Some Rules of Thumb for School Leaders from My Experience as Head of School - NAIS Independent Ideas - 08/17/2015
Better Together: Parenting a Child in an Independent School - Huffington Post Education - 12/11/2014
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 - 06/30/2016
Love the Words - NAIS Independent School Magazine - 03/2016
Senior Night - Huffington Post Education - 02/05/2016
Mom's Math Anxiety - NAIS Independent School Magazine - 01/26/2016
For the New Year, Nine Mantras and Mottoes - NAIS Independent Ideas - 01/04/2016
Voice and Vision: How Girls Learn to Lead and Resist Leading - NCGS Raising Girls' Voices - 10/01/2015
A Booster Shot on Parents' Night - NAIS Independent Ideas - 09/08/2015
Collateral Sorrow - Huffington Post Impact - 05/20/2015
Stand on the Table! - Huffington Post Education - 08/20/2014
This Land is Our Land Huffington Post - 7/14
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 - 3/2016
Soapsuds - Mamalode - 03/06/2016
Dog Whisperer - Huffington Post Parents - 12/22/2015
Lighting the Darkness - Cleveland Jewish News - 12/03/2015
Violins of Hope - Huffington Post Arts and Culture - 10/01/2015
On the Mend: Grappling With Resilience - Huffington Post Education - 07/30/2015
April Cruelty - Huffington Post Women - 04/13/2015
Morning Meditation - Huffington Post Healthy Living - 03/04/2015
Double Sixes: What Backgammon and My Daughter Taught Me About How to Lighten Up - Huffington Post Parents - 02/03/2015
Keep On Chewing - Huffington Post Women - 11/25/2014
Taking Comfort - Huffington Post Parents - 09/02/2014
In the Time That a Blueberry Ripens - Huffington Post Parents - 08/01/2014
This Land Is Our Land - Huffington Post Post 50 - 07/03/2014
Post Mother's Day Blues - Huffington Post Parents - 05/13/2014
The Better Late Than Never Seder - Huffington Post Religion - 04/21/2014
Hummingbirds on Holiday - Huffington Post Parents - 04/11/2014
My Daughter, Jo March - Huffington Post Parents - 03/14/2014
Growing Up With Curly Top - Huffington Post Women - 02/18/2014
What's in a Name? - Huffington Post - 02/04/2014
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 - 09/20/2016
Kindred Spirits: In Praise of Online Classes - Brevity - 07/26/2016
After Page One: Why I Write - Literary Mama - 07/01/2016
Morning Meditation - Huffington Post Healthy Living - 03/04/2015
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 - 06/30/2016
A Working Mother's Take on 'Hamilton' - Huffington Post Parents - 05/13/2016
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
Other…
Violins of Hope - Huffington Post Arts and Culture - 10/01/2015
Growing Up With Curly Top - Huffington Post Women - 02/18/2014