October 25, 2009
Stop Your Search Engines
How I Found Freedom from the Internet
New York Times Magazine

September 13, 2009
What Makes a Woman a Woman?
Caster Semenya and Me
New York Times Magazine

July 30, 2009
Wonder Girl
Girls these days have precious few larger-than-life heroes, especially in the all-important realm of fantasy
New York Times Magazine

June 28, 2009
The Overextended Family
Is Skype bringing us together or destroying boundaries?
The New York Times Magazine

May 3, 2009
Kindergarten Cram
The New York Times Magazine

April 17, 2009
My So-Called Retirement
In Which I Confront the Recession, My Investments, and a Kick-Ass Pair of Biker Boots
Fidelity Investments

March 15, 2009
Growing Up on Facebook
The New York Times Magazine

February 20, 2009
Who Are You Wearing to the Oscars? Who Cares?
National Public Radio, All Things Considered

February 5, 2009
The Toxic Paradox
Can We Really Protect Our Kids From Everything?
The New York Times Magazine

December 7, 2008
Nature, Nuisance or Worse
An Urbanite Reflects on the Wild Animals in her Back Yard
The New York Times Magazine

September 16, 2008
A Mother’s Meditation on Loss
A Review of An Exact Replica of a Figment of My Imagination
The Washington Post

July 20, 2008
In Vitro We Trust
Thirty Years On, the Fertility Business Could Use Some Rethinking
The New York Times Magazine


June 29, 2008
Stress Test
Why Americans Want to Believe that Our Mental States Can Control Our Physical Maladies
The New York Times Magazine


June 2008
Into the Gap!
When is a Flaw an Embarrassment—and When is it an Endearing Part of You?
O: The Oprah Magazine


May 18, 2008
The Hillary Lesson
What Her Candidacy Has Taught Our Daughters
The New York Times Magazine


March 23, 2008
Mixed Messenger
Barack Obama and the Rise of Hapa Nation
The New York Times Magazine


February 18, 2008
You Must Read This
'Brooklyn' Renders an Imperfect World, Perfectly
All Things Considered, National Public Radio


February 10, 2008
Girls Will Be Girls
What Different Visions of Female Childhood Tell Us About Ourselves
The New York Times Magazine


December 2007
The Story of My Life
It Was One of Those Books — the Kind You Keep Forever and Read Again and Again, It Taught Me About Dreams, About Love, and — In a Remarkable Plot Twist — About the Courage it Really Takes to Live
O: The Oprah Magazine


October 2007
Put to the Test: The Breast Cancer Gene
I Dealt With My Breast Cancer. But the Choice to Get Tested for Genetic Mutations — Which Could Predict Even Greater Dangers for Me and Inherited Risks for My Children — Had Me Terrified. Where Would I End Up?
More Magazine


July 15, 2007
Your Gamete, Myself
The Use of Donor Eggs for In Vitro Fertilization is Growing, and the Questions are Multiplying. Whose Eggs to Choose? When to Tell the Kids? What, in the End, is an Authentic Motherhood?
The New York Times Magazine


May 2007
Where I Got Daisy
Having a Mixed-Race Child, I Needed to Learn How to Deal with Some Pretty Surprising Questions
Parenting magazine


April 1, 2007
Baby Lust
Will Ben & Jerry Get You Pregnant?
The New York Times Magazine


April 2007
Home Truths
A Review of The Feminine Mistake
Elle Magazine


March/April 2007
It Looked Good ... at the Time
Beauty is Fleeting ... Thank Goodness!
Hallmark Magazine


February 2007
The Ticking Point
An Exclusive Adaptation from Waiting for Daisy
O: The Oprah Magazine


January/February 2007
Barb and Me
In Praise of a Childhood Friend
body + soul magazine



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