What It Was Like While My Cat Was Likely Dying
Image alt text: A black American Shorthair cat lounging on its side, with purple flowers in the foreground. This is not a photograph of Princess Richard, who is far more snooty looking. Two weeks ago, my cat, Princess Richard, was attacked by a "large canid"—either a...
Essay: Don’t Ever Let Go
Note: This is an original essay that I'm publishing for the first time here on my blog. This essay is dedicated to my father. My father is smart to bring a sleeping bag for me. He is correct to figure that his nine-year-old daughter doesn't share his eagerness for...
Evergreen Post on the Perennial Laptop Ban Debate
Rather than write an entirely new post, I used Thread Reader to pull together a constantly-growing thread of tweets (I'm up to 20 I think at this point) that I've written on the ableist laptop bans that small-minded professors keep proposing and why they're bad for...
Farewell to a Beloved Disability Column
Three years ago, I started the column Life of the Mind Interrupted over on Chronicle Vitae to explore the ways higher education could become more humane for students, faculty, and staff with psychiatric disabilities. The column expanded over the years to encompass all...
On Writing, On Disability, On Mothering, Briefly
I'm emergency-homeschooling my kids. I'm emergency-homeschooling my kids because twice now the disability services in the schools they were enrolled in failed us. This fall, we will enroll them in a third school, and try again. I never (not really) write about my...
FALLOUT GIRL and Using Fiction to Witness Mental Illness
Update 3/26/2018: Fallout Girl is available for Pre-Order now. Here it is on Amazon: bit.ly/falloutgirl. I have a new novel coming out in May, FALLOUT GIRL, and like my last novella (or short novel, whatever), HOW TO STAY, it deals with mental illness head-on. Thank...