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There is always tension in women's gymnastics between athleticism, grace, performance, and eros.
My mother never liked Mother's Day. She thought it was a fake holiday dreamed up by Hallmark to commodify deep sentiments that couldn't be... →
I think about my mother every day. But usually the thoughts are fleeting - she crosses my mind like a spring cardinal that flies past the edge of... →
This is part of the complexity of grief: A piece of you recognizes it is an extreme state, an altered state, yet a large part of you is entirely... →
Loss is so paradoxical: It is at once enormous and tiny.
My theory is this: Women falter when they're called on to be highly self-conscious about their talents. Not when they're called on to enact... →
Grief is characterized much more by waves of feeling that lessen and reoccur, it's less like stages and more like different states of feeling.
'Hamlet' is the best description of grief I've read because it dramatizes grief rather than merely describing it.
One word I had throughout the first year and a half of my mother's death was 'unmoored.' I felt that I had no anchor, that I had no home... →
My whole life, I had been taught to read and study, to seek understanding in knowledge of history, of cultures.
I envy my Jewish friends the ritual of saying kaddish - a ritual that seems perfectly conceived, with its built-in support group and its ceremonious... →
It's all too easy when talking about female gymnasts to fall into the trap of infantilizing them, spending more time worrying more about female... →
A mother is beyond any notion of a beginning. That's what makes her a mother.
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