Selected Bibliography

The essay "18,260 Breakfasts," from Why I’m Still Married: Women Write Their Hearts Out on Love, Loss, Sex, and Who Does the Dishes (Penguin, 2006, 2007), is reprinted in The Aims of Argument, Rhetorics textbook edited by Timothy Crusius and Carolyn Channell (McGraw-Hill, 2008, 2010).

The Atlantic Monthly
"The Riddle of TLE." Nov. 1988 (medicine)

Beliefnet.com
"Out of Sight, Out of History." Jul. 2, 2004

The Boston Globe
"Born to Party." Nov. 2, 2008 (Ideas cover story on political physiology)

"The Opposite of Thanksgiving." Nov. 18, 2007 (Ideas cover story on Puritan thanksgivings)

"A Heretic’s Overdue Honor." Sep. 7, 2005 (op-ed on Anne Hutchinson)

"First Steps at Speedskating." Feb. 19, 2004

"Visiting ‘The Dead’ in Dublin." Jan. 20, 2002 (travel)

"What’s in a Name?" Jan. 18, 1994

"St. John: Almost Private Isle." Jan. 27, 1991 (travel)

"Exile of a Polish Revolutionary." Apr. 7, 1984

Boston Globe Sunday Magazine
"A Wealth of Knowledge." Oct. 12, 1986 (profile of economist Larry Summers, who went on to run the U.S. Treasury, Harvard University, and the White House National Economic Council)

Boston Herald Sunday Magazine
"Dying Words: The Irish Language." Feb. 10, 1985 (cover story)

Boston Magazine
"Rattle & Strum." Nov. 2000 (music)

"Autumn Leavings: Sweet Pickings." Oct. 2000 (travel)

"Pay Dirt." Sep. 2000 (profile of Maine potato farmer)

"Edible Complex." Sep. 2000 (art)

"Flour Power." Sep. 1999 (art)

"The Secret Life of Language: High School Semiotics." Nov. 1983 (education)

BrainChild
"Divorce: The Damage (Not) Done." Spring 2002 (essay/​book review)

Country Living
"Alyson’s Orchard." Sep. 2002 (travel)

"Hidden Cape Ann." Sep. 2000 (travel)

"Seeking Charlotte and Wilbur." Sep. 1999 (travel)

Gourmet
"Good Living: Dead Set in Dublin." Dec. 2002 (travel)

"Still Life With Jelly." Jan. 2002 (art)

Hartford Courant
"The University That Misogyny Built." Jan. 29, 2005 (op-ed on Anne Hutchinson) Reprinted in Anchorage Daily News, Canton (OH) Repository, South Coast (MA) Today, and West Hawaii Today

Harvard Magazine
"Illinois Jacquet: A lot of Lovin’ in Front." Sep./​Oct. 1983 (music)

Ladies’ Home Journal
"The Baby-sitter." Mar. 1998

The New York Times
"Our Lady of the Hutch." Sep. 18, 2004 (op-ed on Anne Hutchinson)

"Keeping the Landscape Hurdle-Free: Walking in Ireland." Jul. 8, 2001 (travel)

"Bread, Tea, and Prayer." Apr. 7, 1996 (travel)

Parents
"The Perfect Family Size." Jul. 1998

Working Woman
"Five Career Ruts You Can’t Afford." Nov. 1987

Yankee
"C.B. Fisk’s Monumental Creations." Dec. 1985 (music)