The Dollhouse has been called many things – dark, creepy, weird, awesome. I’ve had my images scrubbed from Facebook for “offensive content” (whatever that means, I mean we’re talking women and babies!) I wear this as a badge of honor. The images have recently taken a dystopian turn thanks to this political administration. Play is a … Continue reading
I began The Dollhouse to explore my personal history as an adoptee as well as to interrogate the ideas of identity, feminism, and home. When I was a child, I wanted to control the world because, as an adoptee, I felt I had no control. Children play to control the world. Tiny themselves, we create even smaller worlds … Continue reading
Eve, the first woman on Earth, was created by God from Adam’s rib. Is this where the phrase “he can’t take a ribbing” comes from? Divine rules were made to be broken. Because she wanted knowledge and because the serpent suggested it, and because that crisp apple probably looked tasty, she bit it. Read this … Continue reading
Cleaver Magazine published my craft essay about my dollhouse project, creative play, and nonfiction. Also mentioned: Dr. Ruth, The Lonely Doll, Carl Jung, and Thumbelina. “An unintended consequence is that play has allowed me to see in metaphor and to “play out” problematic issues in a safe space, before and during various writing stages. It’s … Continue reading
Many thanks to Jennifer Pastiloff for publishing my piece, “Learning to Mother Myself,” at The Manifest Station. “I sat on the stonewall outside my studio, reading Rebecca Solnit’s The Faraway Nearby, and thinking about how excited I’d been to get far away from my family. I’d been awarded a glorious month-long writers residency in Ithaca, … Continue reading
I was thrilled to be published in Beyond Magazine, alongside the likes of Dinty Moore and Brian Doyle. Kaizen: A Management Seminar was written years ago in a fit of snark for having been made to attend this management seminar. Can you relate? Continue reading
Saltonstall was my first writing residency, and I spent a month working on what I hope will be my first book — a collection of linked essays, titled “The Guild of the Infant Saviour.” Read about how I coped with writing some painful things through play. Continue reading
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