Digressive, thinly substantiated weekly takes on refrigerator turf wars, petty grudge-holding, ADHD, nostalgia, eavesdropping, 1980s television, the tangled threads that connect families, plus metaphorical sausage-making (aka a memoir-in-progress).
Soviet emigre->high school underachiever->comparative literature PhD-> Stanford admissions officer-> college counselor->writer. Author of THE GOLDEN TICKET: A LIFE IN COLLEGE ADMISSIONS ESSAYS (a memoir, not a how-to).
Essays on parenting, creativity and personal growth, from bestselling children's book author and co-founder of Hello!Lucky.
Advice for parents of high schoolers from a former college admissions officer, private college counselor, and author of THE GOLDEN TICKET: A LIFE IN COLLEGE ADMISSIONS ESSAYS (a memoir, not a how-to). Occasionally grouchy, but always from a good place.
Comics about gender, justice, aging, and life as a woman in America.
Exploring what exists in the middle - of parenting, of health, of life. Fourteen years into raising a child with severe epilepsy, I am always looking for the both-ness: the many ways we end up a sum of our best luck and worst experiences.