essays in print and audio
“How Do Kids REALLY Learn to Write?
Life Learning Magazine
March/April 2012
In which I gather many of my beliefs about kids and writing into a single handy-dandy package.
get born! magazine
Fall 2010
In which my daughter longs to sing on stage, and I long to know how to help her.
(originally titled “Homeschooling My MFA”)
Natural Life Magazine
November-December 2009
In which I look back on nearly twenty years of trying to teach myself to write–and realize that what I’ve been doing looks a lot like what my kids do as homeschoolers.
“The Never At Home Homeschoolers”–link opens a PDF file
(originally titled “How to Homeschool”)
Mothering
May-June 2008
In which I describe my family’s homeschooling adventures in the guise of a how-to manual. Not that I would ever actually tell anyone how to homeschool–after more than a decade, I’m still figuring it out for myself. The essay’s style was shamelessly ripped-off from Lorrie Moore’s brilliant short story “How to Become a Writer.” Do read the original.
Cast-On podcast
Episode 41
In which I allow myself to fall in love with knitting–and worry that my writing will get jealous.