I am over the moon to have Good Grief: On Loving Pets, Here and Hereafter featured in The Boston Globe: “In new book, local author explores loving and losing our beloved pets.”

Thank you to Globe reporter Cindy Cantrell for attending my Tewksbury Public Library talk and being inspired to write the story, and to photographer Jonathan Wiggs for taking such an amazing portrait of me, Terrence, and Seymour!

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And bonus content: Little E.B. and Little Richie with said dead dogs! From left to right: Gus, Gwen, and Cocoa. RIP.

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My girl Wanda the betta fish (RIP) finally gets the obituary she deserves in the winter 2020 issue of Wellesley Magazine. Writing this piece for the Endnotes section was really fun. Well, as fun as writing about murdering your fish can be.

Thank you to Alice M. Hummer, Lisa Scanlon Mogolov, and Catherine Grace for publishing my essay!

Thank you to my first-year roommate and BFF Lee Hanae Ung for living through the experience and still being my friend!

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In case you missed it, I now share my home with a celebrity. Terrence the tortoise (a.k.a. @theofficialmrt) was featured in the summer 2018 issue of Wellesley Magazine, in a piece called “The Heart of a Pet” by Lisa Scanlon Mogolov. The fame is really going to his head, and he is becoming insufferable to deal with. But it’s okay, I still love him. I mean, just look at that cute illustration by Miranda Sofroniou! What a guy.

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