Essays

My Family Went Back to Italy to Research My New Book. People (July 2026)

On Managing Time in Fiction. Literary Hub (April 2023)

When First Grade Ended Abruptly, Junie B. Jones Saved My Daughter’s School Year. POPSUGAR (December 2020)

A Novel Opening. Jewish Book Council’s PB Daily (August 2020)

How to Hang a Mezuzah. Creative Nonfiction (August 2020)

On Family Secrets and How We Deliver Bad News. Literary Hub (July 2020)

I worked in PR for over a decade before writing a novel. Business Insider (July 2020)

The Murder of Allen Green. Broad Street magazine (Summer 2018)

Building a FutureR-Home magazine (May/June 2017)

Designer GenesR-Home magazine (March/April 2016)

Good GriefCreative Nonfiction (Summer 2015)

Open-Concept Curmudgeon. Mamalode.com (2014)

Mother in the MiddleBrain, Child magazine’s Brain, Mother Blog (2014)

Lexington, VirginiaOrion magazine’s “The Place Where You Live” Series (2014)