Many years ago, my colleague Paul Rubin profiled a local pediatric cardiac surgeon for our paper, Phoenix New Times. The headline was “Prince of Hearts.” But to me, it’s Paul who’s the prince of hearts. Maybe even the king. You should read his article about Michael Teodori. It’s a wonderful piece of journalism, well written and the […]
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.
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/
