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• Currently judging this year's Bethesda Essay Contest (awards will be announced in April)

• July 20 - August 10, 2011 - Teaching a four-session essay class at the McLean Center (through the Writer's Center)

• Currently working on a collection of essays based on her blog "A Walker in the Suburbs"

Newspaper Essays and Op-Eds

Washington Post

Style Section, 5/31/04, “Fighting with Fear: A Daughter Learns a New War Story” 
Style Section, 4/19/01 “She Leads, I Accompany”
(also heard on  National Public Radio 11/ 29/01 and 5/12/02)
Sunday Style, 5/00 “Noted With: Identity. Names and Places”
“Outlook” Section, 4/98, “The Mom Who Knew Too Much”

 New York Times

“Parents Know Better,” 3/29/99
“Parenting in Triplicate,” 10/2/99
 “Requiem for a Dime,” 12/21/85

Christian Science Monitor, “Home Forum” Page

“A Mini Van, A Maxi Crisis and a Life Lesson from Jim,” 12/04
“We Teach Our Bird to Talk — And He Teaches Us to Fly,” 4/03
“I Was a Back-Seat Western Pioneer,” 3/00
“Summer Sans the Central AC,” 8/95
“Love Song for a Cuckoo Clock,” 8/93
“Beyond the Huffing and Puffing, Runners are the Great Noticers,” 8/91
“Carving Phrases into Memories,” 10/90
“Circular Living in a Linear World,” 2/89

Chicago Tribune

“Best Parenting Instructions Are Built In,” 7/99
“Dr. Spock’s Simplicity Still Speaks Volumes,” 4/98

Magazine Essays

Family Circle

“A Wonderful Life: In Praise of Small Towns,” 10/89
“Rediscovering America,” 8/00

McCall’s

“Self Esteem,” 3/84
“Every Child Should Have a Father, But…,” 3/85
“Living Alone — And Liking It Too Much,” 11/85
“Why Women Always Remember What Men Forget,” 1/86

 Walking Magazine

“A Real Education,” 10/01

Woman’s Day

“Trouble in Toyland,” 11/96

Working Mother

“Having a Third,” 9/98

 Magazine Features

Ladies Home Journal

Habitat Homeowners series, 2003-2004
Other features (approx. 10), 2002-2004

Family Circle

Missing Children series, 2001-2005
           (profiles of missing children, including 3 who were found after stories appeared)

Other features (approx. 25), 1989-2005
            Family, health, profiles, investigative, essays, human interest, including one that
            generated 2700 e-mails for the Orphan Foundation
           American Heart Association’s Howard W. Blakeslee Award for article on heart
           disease in 1992 Family Circle

Working Mother

Features (approx. 50), 1983-2000
            Parenting, health, work-family balance, business, profiles

McCall’s Magazine

Wrote and edited articles, 1982-1987 while on staff
            Travel, health, profiles, features, essays

Good Housekeeping

Parenting, features and profiles, 1991-1993

Other parenting features in:

Family Life
Parenting
Babytalk
Woman

Redbook

Health stories, 1987-1993

Southern Magazine

Profile and travel in this literary-ish publication, 1987

Travel stories in:

Travel  & Leisure
Travel Life