The Color of Tough
A Photo Essay on Morocco
Mission TV
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After Leukemia, A New Year’s Lipsticked Marked Beginnings
Reflections on the memory and value of tragedy
New York Times
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My Dad Was Not Ready to Die
A reflection on sudden death, and reading Pinocchio in the ER
Slate
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Loving a Child on the Fringe
A meditation on my daughter with Down Syndrome and a reply to Andrew Solomon’s book about parenting “different” children, Far from the Tree.
Slate
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The End of Life Memoir: Why Thinking about Death Isn’t Morbid At All
On our relationship to death, and Meghan O’Rourke’s book on her mother.
New York Magazine
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Beauty and the Blood
On Crete, Greek island of heroes and hotspurs
Condé Nast Traveler
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Domesticated Goddess
Essay on the death and art of Sylvia Plath—and also on her biographers
The Atlantic
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