• Beautifully written… It brought tears to my eyes. — expert interviewed for a newspaper article
• Keep on doing what you’re doing!! — reader
• You did a really smart piece and I was pleased to be part of it. — expert interviewed for a newspaper article
• I want to thank you a lot for the well written and accurate article. I have seen only a few so good on scientific topics. It’s being shared a lot in the scientific community and it is being really appreciated. — expert interviewed for a newspaper article
• Really nice work. — Globe and Mail editor
• This is great! You’re a really natural writer. — Maisonneuve editor
• What a wonderful article. You are a wonderful writer. — expert interviewed for a magazine article
• I was so thrilled to read your beautiful and uplifting article on the empty nest syndrome experienced by many whose kids leave home for the first time. It really put a silver lining on my gray clouds! — Discover magazine reader
• You do top notch work—one of the best freelancers I’ve had out of the gate. — Kootenay Business Magazine editor
• I’ve talked to a lot of reporters and compared to most of them, you really asked the right questions. — expert interviewed for a magazine article
• Congratulations on a very well researched article. — expert interviewed for a magazine article

Non-fiction

Here is a small sample of my magazine and newspaper articles:

Science

• Why Your Belongings Hold So Much Meaning, and How to Decide What to Grab in an Emergency. (The Washington Post)
• It’s Natural to Feel Happy and Sad at the Same Time. Here’s When It Can Become a Problem. (The Washington Post)
• Large Events Can Be Cesspools of Germs. Here’s Why We Ache for Them, Anyway. (The Washington Post)
• Pandemic Got You Down? Psychologists Suggest Time Travel — Sort of. (The Washington Post)
• Nap Time Is the New Coffee Break. Here’s How to Make the Most of It. (The Washington Post)
• Good Food Gone Bad: Why the Best-before Date Doesn’t Tell You Much (Healthing.ca)
• Looking to Make the Pandemic More Bearable? Get a Plant (Healthing.ca)
• Why Some People Are More Optimistic Than Others—and Why It Matters (The Washington Post)
• Having Coronavirus Nightmares? Here’s What You Can Do About Those Bad Dreams. (The Washington Post)
• Why Solving Puzzles Feels so Satisfying, Especially During a Quarantine (The Washington Post)
• Knock on Wood (Discover)

Arts and culture

• Traditional and Tumultuous (ARTiculate)
• More Dancers Experience High Levels of Shame Than the Average Person. Here’s What You Can Do (Dance Magazine)
• What’s That Ratty Pair of Pointe Shoes Doing to Your Feet? (Pointe Magazine)
• Dancing Hones Your Body, But What Does It Do to Your Brain? (Dance Magazine)
• To Reflect or Not to Reflect: Should Dance Teachers Stop Using Mirrors? (Dance Teacher)
• Look, Mom! a Van Gogh!: Why Artistic Masterpieces Matter to Teens (Parent.co)
• Welding a Vision (ARTiculate)
• Thinking Small (The Dance Current)
• Disappearance (ARTiculate)
• Two Days & Three Hundred Knights (Kootenay Mountain Culture)

Parenting

• A Pandemic Tradition Worth Keeping: Walking Together. (The Washington Post)
• Friday Night Is Pizza Night. How Weekend Choices Undermine Our Kids’ Healthy Eating Habits. (The Washington Post)
• A New Study Shows What Many of Us Already Believe: Dogs Are Good for Kids (The Washington Post)
• The Perks of Being an Empty Nester (Discover)

Other

• After a Year of Covid Life, We’ve Run out of Things to Talk About. Try These Conversation Tips. (The Washington Post)
• Nauseous: A (Pre-pandemic) Love Triangle (Polemical Zine)
• Why We Razed Our Garden to the Ground (The Globe and Mail)
• I’m Determined to Become Bilingual—But It’s Okay That My Kids Are Not (The Globe and Mail)
• I Thought I Was the Only Galadriel (The Globe and Mail)
• A Marriage to Music (Won the professional non-fiction category of CBC Radio One’s Alberta Anthology 2004, plus received honorable mention in the 1997 Writer’s Digest Writing Competition.)

Fiction

My short story “Mouthwash and Mass Destruction” was published in The Lamp Journal, Volume 8 (2018).

One of my short stories was a finalist in the 2016 Thomas Morton Memorial Prize for Literary Excellence (The Puritan).