December 24, 2006
What’s Wrong With Cinderella?
One Mother’s Struggle with Her 3-Year-Old Daughter’s Love Affair
with Princess Culture
The New York Times Magazine

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

October 2003
Breast Friends
Facing Breast Cancer, I Did What Conventional Wisdom Dictated:
I Joined a Support Group Expecting a Lot of Healing, Sharing, and Even to Extend My Life. What I Found Was Something a Little More Real.
ELLE Magazine

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