Misc. Writing Samples

All of these articles appeared on the website Suite101.com

Children Reading to Dogs: Program Helps Young Readers Improve Literacy Skills
Children naturally feel comfortable around dogs. By making the most of this relationship, parents and teachers can improve literacy skills and encourage reading.

Saturn Returning Phenomenon: Astrology Attempts to Explain the Quarterlife Crisis

Heavily looming questions coupled with the fear and doubt surrounding your 30th birthday can be easily explained. At least that is what astrologists want you to believe. 

Book Review: When I Grow Up By Juliana Hatfield: Not Just Another Rock Star's Memoir

Best known for her musical prowess, Juliana Hatfield pens a literary tale of her life in this honest and wry memoir.

Guernica: An Ideal Depiction of Human Suffering: Picasso's Masterpiece Visualizes the Tragedies of War and Violence

The violence and brutality that war inflicts upon men, women, children and animals is key in Picasso's mural-like black and white masterpiece.

Haunted Places on Long Island: Four Spooky Spots and Their Histories

Long Island's history is full of urban legends dating back to the 1600s and continuing to present day tales of haunted locales.

The Last Girl Character: An Examination of Final Survival in Horror Films

Is the sole survivor of horror films an innocent virginal female or a feminist mark or is she simply the same as the killer: representative of a greater lesson?

XOJANE.com, It Happened to Me Column

My essay, My Husband Was Arrested for a DWI, was published on the XOJane.com website on November 18, 2011 in their It Happened to Me column.

It was the single thing in our relationship that we fought about: the frequency with which he drank, the money that he threw away on alcohol and the ramifications of something bad happening if he didn’t get himself under control...

Working Mother Magazine Blog

I've been writing my blog,  I Can Sleep When I'm Dead, at Working Mother magazine's website since November 1, 2011.

I write about:

• topics in the news affecting working mom; 
• general mom topis; 
• reviews of products that are of interest to busy, working moms and their families;
• ideas and activities for moms with toddlers;
• how I juggle working a full time job at night and being a mom.