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I never met Gloria Steinem, but she was there at a pivotal moment for me, when the most prominent piece of writing I’d ever done

I was enthralled with Dave before I met him. I was starting my second summer as a camp counselor at Camp Weequaic, an eight-week sleep-away

When I was making my documentary Behind the Bullet, I interviewed the trauma surgeon who was reconstructing Christen’s jaw. Christen, one of the four people featured

Speaking at the first conference in the United States devoted entirely to sibling sexual trauma and abuse (SSTA) is something I’ll never forget Yes, you

In 2018, I was sitting in the second row of a performance of The Vagina Monologues in Santa Monica. At the end of the show,

Becoming a parent felt like a do-over of my childhood. I thought I was just trying to give my kids what I didn’t get when

During a recent podcast interview, the host asked me where my safe space was when I was growing up. I instinctively said, “My bedroom.” I

Last week a friend asked me how long it took to write my book. Like most authors, I get this question a lot. The answer

Twenty-seven years after the Columbine massacre, I found myself sitting in my high school math teacher’s kitchen, drinking wine with her and her husband late

“You’re too young to have this kind of hearing loss and constant ringing,” the audiologist said as she squinted at my chart. “Do you work

I’ve been thinking a lot about how differently we respond to preventable child deaths. Carter Lee was ten years old. Last September in Burns, Tennessee,

When my friend Gail Warner shared this poem, it felt familiar in a way I couldn’t ignore. It made me think about my birth family—my