A few weeks ago, I mentioned that fact that my dear friend Trish took her 16-year-old son Zach to Tucson to get a tattoo. She has written an absolutely stunning piece about it for New Times. Read it. You’ll be glad you did. Share:
The second part of my series “The Lost Kids” is out this week. The day before the story came out, a Facebook friend across the country posted a really beautiful quote from “A Prayer for Owen Meaney” by John Irving. I found it an odd coincidence. The story of Cynthia Clark Harvey’s struggle to get [...]
This week, New Times published my first cover story in a year — the beginning of a series called “Lost Kids”. It’s the kind of story I used to write a dozen times a year. And yet, it’s not. I hate to admit that motherhood (particularly, mothering Sophie) has changed how I approach telling other [...]
This just in, from a friend who put “holy mary mother of god” in the subject line of her email about Levi Johnston’s tell-all coming out in the October Vanity Fair. It is pretty juicy, according to an LA Times blog. I have my own thoughts about Sarah Palin, which I expressed last year (was [...]
At our staff meeting Monday, my fellow day-jobbers at the alt weekly were horrified to hear we were writing about The Wiggles, and only slightly less so when I announced the piece was about how I refused to review their upcoming Phoenix show. “And Sophie has never liked The Wiggles,” I exclaimed, at the end of [...]
OK, I wrote about her: http://www.phoenixnewtimes.com/2008-09-11/news/as-a-working-mom-with-a-child-with-down-syndrome-sarah-palin-makes-me/ Share:
