Selected Articles: 2003 to 2006

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SEPTEMBER 2006
"Love, Oscar, and What I Wore"
My Marriage Had Become the Stuff of Hollywood Drama:
Cancer, Infertility, Estrangement. But When My Husband was Up for a Second Academy Award, All I Wanted Was a Happy Ending” and a Killer Dress.
—More Magazine

NOVEMBER 2004
"When Daisy Got a Cold"
One Day She Had the Sniffles — and Then She Was in the Hospital. And I Knew that if Her Heart Stopped, Mine Would, Too
—Parenting Magazine

JULY 25, 2004
"The Other Mother"
K Provided the Egg, Her Lover the Womb; When They Broke Up K Found Out Just How Fragile the Definition of Motherhood Could Be
—The New York Times Magazine

MARCH 7, 2004
"Food Fighter"
If Alice Waters Builds a Better Sloppy Joe, Will Schoolchildren Eat It?
—The New York Times Magazine

JANUARY 11, 2004
"Motherhood: Formula for Guilt"
Promoting Breast-Feeding By Shaming Women is Bad Public Policy
—The Los Angeles Times

JULY 4, 2003
"Where Have All the Lisas Gone?"
Why Baby Names Become Popular
—The New York Times Magazine

MARCH 2, 2003
"The Other Within"
Racist Speech Hits a Mother-to-Be Right in the Belly
—The Los Angeles Times