There are new reading recs by yours truly up today on The Shepherd! This list is for all you parents and grandparents and aunts and uncles and caregivers who need to have hard conversations with little ones about pets dying.
I am thrilled to share I have a new essay published in Off Assignment as part of their Letter to a Stranger series. Read "To the Iditarod Man" here, and also check out my "Behind the Essay" interview for the
Photo by Jonathan Wiggs for The Boston Globe. 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
Today marks ONE MONTH that Good Grief: On Loving Pets, Here and Hereafter has been out in the world! I can't believe it has been a month. It both flew by and also felt like the longest month of my life. More below
It's official!!! On January 30, I sold my book Good Grief: On Loving Pets, Here and Hereafter, to Houghton Mifflin Harcourt! My editor is the wonderful Naomi Gibbs, known for editing many incredible books, including some of my favorites from the past
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
As you may know, I've become a bit of a regular reader at the Mortified show at Oberon, thanks to the best-ever Mortified producer, Sara Faith Alterman. But now I'm super excited to share that you don't have to be in the Cambridge area
For the full essay, see it on The Toast. Originally published on December 3, 2014. -- In fourth grade, I was the new student in school. While I liked many of my classmates, I felt shy when it came to having people over
For the full essay, see it on xoJane. Originally published on November 18, 2014. --- Looking around the New England Reptile Expo, I decided I wasn’t one of these people. Older men examined crickets, kids clutched Tupperwares of geckos, but the crowd seemed mostly
I have been forced, because the Babysitting Charge demands it, to read the book Harriet the Hamster Fairy out loud, every afternoon, while the Charge eats her snack, for the better part of a week, and let me just say,