Some of my published writing
Editors who produce literary magazines and journals are lovers of language who work tirelessly, usually without pay, to bring the prose and poetry of thousands of writers to a readership.  I am grateful to these editors.

Here are links to much of my writing that has been published in literary journals/other.
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Teaching
*All the White People - The Masters Review

• About our third-grade classroom discussion the morning after the 2016 Presidential election.

*All Children Deserve Protection, Not Just Straight, White, Cisgender Kids – San  Francisco Chronicle 

• An Op-Ed about Proud Boys invading Drag Story Hour at a local library

*Teacher and Student – Night Shift Radio

• My reconnection with a long-ago student after he is arrested for murder

*Foolproof Safety Tips for Teachers Returning to the Classroom – McSweeney’s

• Absurd “suggestions” for classroom procedures early in the pandemic

*Voices in the Dark – Teachers and Writers Magazine

• Teaching poetry, virtually, during the pandemic

 *Shithead – Sequestrum  (Most of it is here, but the end is behind a pay wall.)

• Teachers are shitheads who fail constantly, due to unrealistic expectations.

*Only Eight – Shark Reef

• An empathetic 3rd-grade class extends kindness toward a struggling child.

*Extrovert Chair Hits the Road: Back-to-School Edition" (my own blog post)

• Starting a new school year during the pandemic, I visit each child at their home.

*Finger Art – Atticus Review

• About teaching art virtually during the pandemic

*Mammals and Plant Life – The Short Humor Site

• Two very short anecdotes about the natural comedy of a classroom

*Love Lessons – Jonah

• A lesson from long-ago childhood influences my teaching practice.

Parents and aging
*Andiamo! (named “Notable” in Best American Essays) – Ascent

• My father and I butt heads before traveling together to Italy to meet his relatives.

*Who I Am – Hippocampus

• My mother’s fading memory of how the two of us were connected

*Training Camp – Quail Bell Magazine

• A flash piece about my mom’s happiness despite her dementia

*Law and Order (scroll to pg. 18) – Write Place at the Write Time

• Flash piece about solving a mystery

*River Walk – Glassworks

• Flash piece about walking with my mother just after my father’s death

*Morning-Night – Switchback

• A kind stranger helps me as my father is dying.

Relationships
*Fear-Biter – Full Grown People

• As I stumble through relationships in my early 40s, my companion is my fear-biting dog.

*Another John – Full Grown People

• At age 44, I tiptoe into the very early days of online dating.

*Breakfast at IHOP – Citron Review

• My husband takes me out to breakfast after my colonoscopy.

Travel
*Beautiful Ugly – Cleaver

• A memorable Mexican bus trip during my youth

*Real Life – Lowestoft Chronicle

• Encounters during a youthful journey in Mexico

Health
*Stab – Santa Fe Writers Project

• Struggling to give myself daily injections after a frightening diagnosis

*The Test – Furious Gazelle

• A new diagnosis leads to a comical medical test.

Miscellaneous
*Red-Eye Greyhound to Oakland –  Quail Bell Magazine

• A flash piece about a youthful encounter with a stranger.

*Saints and the Rest of Us – Harpur Palate

• The complexity of being raised Catholic

 
Note:

• All the White People was also published by The Fear of Monkeys, and was excerpted by The Font. It was also excerpted in Civil Liberties United: Diverse Voices from the San Francisco Bay Area, edited by Shizue Seigel
• Who I Am was also published by Dreamers and by Down in the Dirt.
• Stab was also published by Rougarou.

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Many thanks to the staff of each literary journal that has published my work.