NON-FICTION

Can Attachment Theory Explains All of Our Relationships?
NEW YORK MAGAZINE
The most important parenting you’ll ever do happens before your child turns one — and may affect her for the rest of her life. One mother’s journey through the science of attachment.
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We Started the Crusade for Affirmative Consent Way Back in the ’90s
NEW YORK MAGAZINE
When the Womyn of Antioch introduced the concept we were mocked on Saturday Night Live. What changed for Columbia’s Mattress Girl?
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The Kind of Mother I’d Be
NEW YORK MAGAZINE
Beginning a journey into the science of attachment.
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My essay Food of the Gods (with a Recipe for Mystical Gravy) appears in
THE CASSOULET SAVED OUR MARRIAGE: True Tales of Food, Family, and How We Learned to Eat
Shambala Books, edited by Caroline Grant and Lisa Catherine Harper (2013)
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Coupling
OHIO EDIT
A prose piece about summer (among other things).

Simplify Your Life without Making it Complicated
PARENTS MAGAZINE
It’s not as hard as it seems.

Hot and Bothered About Beauty
THE WEEKLINGS
Rehab the Addiction to Beauty-Porn.

Lessons From a Zen Mommy
PARENTS MAGAZINE
Who knew all my time in a monastery would lead to this?!

Some Personal Reflections on the Most Recent Zen Teacher Sex Scandal
THE WEEKLINGS
An Essay about Daido, Among other Things.
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One Place at Once
LION’S ROAR
Why options are overrated.
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The Temptation of Belief
KILLING THE BUDDHA
“That night as I lay in bed, hands on my hard, round belly, my mind filled with the faces of all the believers I had met and seen, I tried, really tried to pray.”
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A Jealous Buddhist in God’s Orange County
GEEZ MAGAZINE
“Pretty much everyone I talked to found it odd that I would leave my life, 7 months pregnant, to waddle around a a palm-tree land of strip-malls and megachurches interviewing Christians.”
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