Essays

Migration

It took eleven days for Afghan women to become objects, totems in black burqas. Taliban fighters captured fringe cities like Herat and Kunduz one day and streamed with little opposition toward Kabul. Within days, they’d infiltrated…

How to Grow a $400 Squash

My husband said to the realtor, “we really want a house with an interesting back yard.” The back yard of the house we moved to in May has four crepe myrtles, five feet high, and…

  • The Broadmoor,” One Woman’s Day website, October 19, 2020
  • “My Pandemic Bubble,” Real Women Write, Dec. 2021 (Story Circle Network Anthology)
  • “Keep Current With a Journal Club,” The Science Teacher, Jan. 2017
  • “Walking Home” in The Sun (Readers Write), March, 2010
  • “A Servant Story,” Lutheran Woman Today, July/Aug. 1998